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Sekoia.io Endpoint Agent

Sekoia.io provides its agent for collecting security-related events with a minimal configuration overhead. This agent sends events directly to Sekoia.io.

Disclaimer

Info

The Sekoia.io Endpoint Detection Agent preserves the integrity of logs collected from the operating system event log; it does NOT modify or rewrite logs.

Supported OS versions

The Endpoint Detection Agent supports the following operating systems, on 64-bit versions only:

  • Windows 8
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022

The agent should support Linux distributions based on a kernel version of 3.10 or newer.

Here's a non-exhaustive list of supported distributions:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 and newer
  • Debian 8 and newer
  • CentOS 7 and newer
  • Redhat 7 and newer

New features

To find out about the changes between each version please check the agent's changelog

Prerequisites

The Sekoia.io Endpoint Agent uses the HTTPS protocol to send its events and has an automatic update mechanism. As a prerequisite, it's necessary to open the following streams:

  • https://intake.sekoia.io/
  • https://api.sekoia.io/
  • https://fra2.app.sekoia.io/
  • https://mco1.app.sekoia.io/
  • https://app.uae1.sekoia.io

Installation

Disclaimer

Warning

If you want to install this agent on a machine with an EDR in place, please keep in mind that most EDRs perform actions to detect malware or other types of threats. Those actions generate events that our agent collects. This may result in raising false positive alerts from our detection rules of effort levels 3 and 4. Customers need to fine-tune these rules to reduce the occurrence of false positives.

Step 1: Create an intake

The first step to use the agent is to create a new intake associated with the Sekoia.io Agent.

Step 2: Download executable

Use the download link provided in the description of the intake in the application.

Installation

The Endpoint Detection Agent is easy to install on Windows or Linux systems once you create a dedicated intake key on Sekoia.io XDR.

Execute the following commands as an administrator:

agent.exe install --intake-key <INTAKE_KEY>

To make sure the agent is successfully installed as a service, run the following command:

Get-Service SEKOIAEndpointAgent

If auditd is running on the machine, you must deactivate it before installing the Linux agent:

sudo systemctl stop auditd
# In case of error "Failed to stop auditd.service: Operation refused"
# try to set "RefuseManualStop" to "no" inside "/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service"
# reload the systemctl daemon "sudo systemctl daemon-reload"
# and retry "sudo systemctl stop auditd"
sudo systemctl disable auditd

Note

Stop the auditd service to enable the agent to work properly. The disable command is used to allow persistence of the configuration.

Now that auditd is disabled, you can install the agent:

chmod +x ./agent-latest
sudo ./agent-latest install --intake-key <INTAKE_KEY>

To make sure the agent is successfully installed as a service, run the following command:

sudo systemctl status SEKOIAEndpointAgent.service

journald configuration

To get events, the agent pushes rules to the audit framework. By default, journald might listen to the audit socket for events.

To disable audit logging, do the following as root:

# Stop listening to audit events
systemctl stop systemd-journald-audit.socket

# Disable it to avoid future start
systemctl disable systemd-journald-audit.socket

# Masking will prevent starting by other services
systemctl mask systemd-journald-audit.socket

# Restart journald
systemctl restart systemd-journald

A reboot may be necessary if the audit events are still appearing in the logs.

Once installed, the agent collects, normalizes, and sends event logs to Sekoia.io. The protocol used to send events is HTTPS (443).

Setting the region

It's possible to specify the region the agent will communicate with during the installation. To do it, append --region <region_name> at the end of the command.

For example, if the agent must communicate with fra2, run the following command:

agent.exe install --intake-key <INTAKE_KEY> --region fra2

Update

Disable automatic update

By default, the agent will be updated automatically. To disable this feature, specify the --disable-auto-update flag during the installation.

Manual update

To update the agent manually, follow the instructions specific to your OS.

Execute the following command as an administrator:

$ProgramFiles\EndpointAgent\agent.exe update

Where $ProgramFiles refers to the path to the Program Files folder, usually c:\Program Files.

The following command must be executed:

sudo /opt/endpoint-agent update

Uninstall

To uninstall the agent, follow the instructions specific to your OS.

Since version 0.3.0

To completely uninstall the agent on Windows, you must execute the command using a copy of the running executable. You can either:

  • Download the latest version of the agent and use this binary to perform the uninstall
  • Copy the running agent located at $ProgramFiles\EndpointAgent\agent.exe
  • $ProgramFiles refers to the path to the Program Files folder, usually c:\Program Files)

Execute the following command as an administrator:

agent.exe uninstall

Execute the following command:

sudo /opt/endpoint-agent/agent uninstall

For versions prior to 0.3.0

To remove the service, execute the following commands as an administrator:

agent.exe -service stop
agent.exe -service uninstall

Then, remove the folders created by the agent:

  • $ProgramFiles\EndpointAgent
    • Where $ProgramFiles refers to the path to the Program Files folder, usually c:\Program Files
  • $ProgramData\EndpointAgent
    • Where $ProgramData refers to the path to the ProgramData folder, usually c:\ProgramData

Execute the following commands to remove the service:

sudo /opt/endpoint-agent/agent -service stop
sudo /opt/endpoint-agent/agent -service uninstall

Then, remove the folders created by the agent:

sudo rm -rf /opt/endpoint-agent
sudo rm -rf /etc/endpoint-agent

Collect logs in files

Warning

This feature is currently in beta.

Info

This feature allows you to monitor and collect logs from applications like NGINX. The agent automatically collects logs for all system-related events.

The agent offers to send logs contained in files to Sekoia.io.

If you want to enable this feature, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the configuration file at:

    C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Sekoia.io\EndpointAgent\config.yaml
    
    /etc/endpoint-agent/config.yaml
    
  2. Add the following configuration:

    logfiles:
        - filepath: /var/log/nginx/access.log  # Path to the file to watch
          intakekey: {intake key}  # Intake key to use to send the events
    

Warning

It's important to use an intake key from a format that matches the content of the log file.

For example, an intake key from the NGINX format is required for watching NGINX access logs.

Once the configuration file is modified, restart the agent:

Execute the following command as an administrator:

Restart-Service SEKOIAEndpointAgent

Execute the following command:

sudo systemctl restart SEKOIAEndpointAgent.service

Using file patterns

It is possible to specify patterns in the filepath attribute to match multiple files. For example /var/log/nginx/*.log will match all the log files located under /var/log/nginx/.

It is also possible to restrict the allowed matching characters by specifying a range between brackets. For example, the pattern /var/log/nginx/*[a-z].log will match /var/log/nginx/access.log but not /var/log/nginx/access.2023-02-14.log. This kind of pattern is particularly useful when log rotation is enabled.

Note

The recursive globstart pattern ** is currently not supported

Retention

The agent sends the host logs through the Internet. The agent saves logs locally on disk in a non-customizable 100 MB memory space if the Internet connection is lost. Once the logs exceed the buffer size, the older logs are replaced by newer ones. When the Internet connection is restored, the older logs are sent to Sekoia.io first.

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source Description
Access tokens security identifiers are extracted from several events
Anti-virus Windows Defender events are analyzed, and need to be specifically set up
Authentication logs audit logon events are examined in detail
DLL monitoring information about dlls are extracted from several events
File monitoring information about files are extracted from several events
Host network interface Windows Filtering Platform collects information on processes having network activities
Loaded DLLs Sysmon events provide information on DLL loading
PowerShell logs Windows PowerShell logs are analyzed, and need to be specifically set up
Process command-line parameters Windows Security Auditing logs provide information about process creation
Process monitoring Windows Security Auditing logs are process tracking events
Process use of network Windows Filtering Platform collects information on processes having network activities
Windows event logs events related to Windows Event logs shutdown or restart are analyzed
Windows Registry registry auditing events are examined in detail
WMI Objects Windows WMI Activity events are analyzed, and events related to WMI process too

Event Samples

Find below few samples of events and how they are normalized by Sekoia.io.

{
    "message": "{\"@timestamp\":\"2023-01-23T09:35:34.99Z\",\"agent\":{\"id\":\"1236c43def406f675318c07468d7b7e0984ba5a406da30251e102b6f2a103b24\",\"version\":\"v0.8.0\"},\"event\":{\"category\":[\"host\"],\"kind\":\"event\",\"reason\":\"Starting Events watcher\",\"provider\":\"SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint\"},\"host\":{\"hostname\":\"raphael-XPS-13-9370\",\"os\":{\"family\":\"linux\"}},\"log\":{\"level\":\"info\",\"logger\":\"SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint\"}, \"error\": {\"message\": \"My error\"}}",
    "event": {
        "category": [
            "host"
        ],
        "kind": "event",
        "provider": "SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint",
        "reason": "Starting Events watcher"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2023-01-23T09:35:34.990000Z",
    "agent": {
        "id": "1236c43def406f675318c07468d7b7e0984ba5a406da30251e102b6f2a103b24",
        "version": "v0.8.0"
    },
    "error": {
        "message": "My error"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "raphael-XPS-13-9370",
        "name": "raphael-XPS-13-9370",
        "os": {
            "family": "linux"
        }
    },
    "log": {
        "level": "info",
        "logger": "SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint"
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "raphael-XPS-13-9370"
        ]
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"@timestamp\": \"2022-06-02T12:23:19.097868Z\", \"agent\": {\"id\": \"c7a2ee33b4ac7c46c28c597d69f4d9ad327ead3601af4375d68bc250eb62e857\", \"version\": \"0.1.0\"}, \"action\": {\"id\": 22, \"properties\": {\"Image\": \"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Google\\\\Chrome\\\\Application\\\\chrome.exe\", \"Keywords\": \"0x8000000000000000\", \"ProcessGuid\": \"{033fb112-653e-6298-8301-000000001000}\", \"ProviderGuid\": \"{5770385F-C22A-43E0-BF4C-06F5698FFBD9}\", \"RuleName\": \"-\", \"Severity\": \"INFO\", \"SourceName\": \"Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon\", \"User\": \"TEST-PC\\\\test\", \"UtcTime\": \"2022-06-02 12:23:18.607\"}}, \"dns\": {\"answers\": [{\"name\": \"scontent.xx.fbcdn.net\", \"type\": \"CNAME\"}, {\"data\": \"157.240.21.20\", \"type\": \"A\"}, {\"data\": \"185.89.219.11\", \"type\": \"A\"}, {\"data\": \"129.134.30.11\", \"type\": \"A\"}, {\"data\": \"185.89.218.11\", \"type\": \"A\"}, {\"data\": \"129.134.31.11\", \"type\": \"A\"}, {\"data\": \"2a03:2880:f1fd:b:face:b00c:0:99\", \"type\": \"AAAA\"}, {\"data\": \"2a03:2880:f0fc:b:face:b00c:0:99\", \"type\": \"AAAA\"}, {\"data\": \"2a03:2880:f1fc:b:face:b00c:0:99\", \"type\": \"AAAA\"}, {\"data\": \"2a03:2880:f0fd:b:face:b00c:0:99\", \"type\": \"AAAA\"}], \"question\": {\"name\": \"connect.facebook.net\", \"size_in_char\": 20}, \"response_code\": \"0\"}, \"event\": {\"code\": 22, \"provider\": \"Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon\"}, \"host\": {\"hostname\": \"test-PC\"}, \"process\": {\"executable\": \"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Google\\\\Chrome\\\\Application\\\\chrome.exe\", \"name\": \"chrome.exe\", \"pid\": 6440}, \"user\": {\"name\": \"test\", \"domain\": \"TEST-PC\"}}",
    "event": {
        "code": "22",
        "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-02T12:23:19.097868Z",
    "action": {
        "id": 22,
        "properties": {
            "Image": "C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
            "Keywords": "0x8000000000000000",
            "ProcessGuid": "{033fb112-653e-6298-8301-000000001000}",
            "ProviderGuid": "{5770385F-C22A-43E0-BF4C-06F5698FFBD9}",
            "RuleName": "-",
            "Severity": "INFO",
            "SourceName": "Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon",
            "User": "TEST-PC\\test",
            "UtcTime": "2022-06-02 12:23:18.607"
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "id": "c7a2ee33b4ac7c46c28c597d69f4d9ad327ead3601af4375d68bc250eb62e857",
        "version": "0.1.0"
    },
    "dns": {
        "answers": [
            {
                "name": "scontent.xx.fbcdn.net",
                "type": "CNAME"
            },
            {
                "data": "157.240.21.20",
                "type": "A"
            },
            {
                "data": "185.89.219.11",
                "type": "A"
            },
            {
                "data": "129.134.30.11",
                "type": "A"
            },
            {
                "data": "185.89.218.11",
                "type": "A"
            },
            {
                "data": "129.134.31.11",
                "type": "A"
            },
            {
                "data": "2a03:2880:f1fd:b:face:b00c:0:99",
                "type": "AAAA"
            },
            {
                "data": "2a03:2880:f0fc:b:face:b00c:0:99",
                "type": "AAAA"
            },
            {
                "data": "2a03:2880:f1fc:b:face:b00c:0:99",
                "type": "AAAA"
            },
            {
                "data": "2a03:2880:f0fd:b:face:b00c:0:99",
                "type": "AAAA"
            }
        ],
        "question": {
            "name": "connect.facebook.net",
            "registered_domain": "facebook.net",
            "size_in_char": 20,
            "subdomain": "connect",
            "top_level_domain": "net"
        },
        "response_code": "0"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "test-PC",
        "name": "test-PC"
    },
    "process": {
        "executable": "C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
        "name": "chrome.exe",
        "pid": 6440
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "connect.facebook.net",
            "test-PC"
        ],
        "user": [
            "test"
        ]
    },
    "user": {
        "domain": "TEST-PC",
        "name": "test"
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"@timestamp\": \"2022-06-02T12:18:37.6722336Z\", \"agent\": {\"id\": \"c7a2ee33b4ac7c46c28c597d69f4d9ad327ead3601af4375d68bc250eb62e857\", \"version\": \"0.1.0\"}, \"event\": {\"action\": \"stats\", \"category\": \"host\", \"kind\": \"metric\", \"type\": \"info\"}, \"host\": {\"hostname\": \"test-PC\", \"uptime\": 17899}, \"sekoiaio\": {\"agent\": {\"cpu_usage\": 0.26030037, \"memory_usage\": 0.14199863}, \"host\": {\"cpu_usage\": 12.285156, \"memory_total\": 16961064960, \"memory_available\": 8049606656, \"memory_usage\": 52}}}",
    "event": {
        "action": "stats",
        "category": "host",
        "kind": "metric",
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-02T12:18:37.672233Z",
    "agent": {
        "id": "c7a2ee33b4ac7c46c28c597d69f4d9ad327ead3601af4375d68bc250eb62e857",
        "version": "0.1.0"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "test-PC",
        "name": "test-PC",
        "uptime": 17899
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "test-PC"
        ]
    },
    "sekoiaio": {
        "agent": {
            "cpu_usage": 0.26030037,
            "memory_usage": 0.14199863
        },
        "host": {
            "cpu_usage": 12.285156,
            "memory_available": 8049606656,
            "memory_total": 16961064960,
            "memory_usage": 52
        }
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"@timestamp\": \"2022-06-02T12:18:37.6722336Z\", \"agent\": {\"id\": \"c7a2ee33b4ac7c46c28c597d69f4d9ad327ead3601af4375d68bc250eb62e857\", \"version\": \"0.1.0\"}, \"event\": {\"action\": \"stats\", \"category\": \"host\", \"kind\": \"metric\", \"type\": [\"info\"]}, \"host\": {\"hostname\": \"test-PC\", \"uptime\": 17899}, \"sekoiaio\": {\"agent\": {\"cpu_usage\": 0.26030037, \"memory_usage\": 0.14199863}, \"host\": {\"cpu_usage\": 12.285156, \"memory_total\": 16961064960, \"memory_available\": 8049606656, \"memory_usage\": 52}}}",
    "event": {
        "action": "stats",
        "category": "host",
        "kind": "metric",
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-02T12:18:37.672233Z",
    "agent": {
        "id": "c7a2ee33b4ac7c46c28c597d69f4d9ad327ead3601af4375d68bc250eb62e857",
        "version": "0.1.0"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "test-PC",
        "name": "test-PC",
        "uptime": 17899
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "test-PC"
        ]
    },
    "sekoiaio": {
        "agent": {
            "cpu_usage": 0.26030037,
            "memory_usage": 0.14199863
        },
        "host": {
            "cpu_usage": 12.285156,
            "memory_available": 8049606656,
            "memory_total": 16961064960,
            "memory_usage": 52
        }
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"user\":{\"id\":\"1063\",\"name\":\"USER_FOO\"},\"action\":{\"properties\":{\"hostname\":\"1.1.1.1\",\"id\":\"1063\",\"op\":\"login\",\"terminal\":\"ssh\"}},\"event\":{\"action\":\"logged-in\",\"provider\":\"SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint\",\"outcome\":\"success\",\"category\":[\"authentication\"],\"type\":[\"start\"], \"start\":\"2023-06-23T07:41:09.858Z\", \"end\":\"2023-06-23T07:46:09.858Z\"},\"agent\":{\"id\":\"2c59eed20c79ccd855d4a9c336ae9e0d2311970d30b87e426ff582032eeef137\",\"version\":\"v1.1.0+5369595aebc1c30ff2c849af30f51e4d9327584f\"},\"host\":{\"os\":{\"type\":\"linux\"},\"hostname\":\"foobar.net\"},\"network\":{\"direction\":\"ingress\"},\"process\":{\"executable\":\"/usr/sbin/sshd\",\"pid\":1750},\"source\":{\"address\":\"1.1.1.1\",\"ip\":\"1.1.1.1\"},\"@timestamp\":\"2023-06-23T07:41:09.858Z\"}\n",
    "event": {
        "action": "logged-in",
        "category": [
            "authentication"
        ],
        "end": "2023-06-23T07:46:09.858000Z",
        "outcome": "success",
        "provider": "SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint",
        "start": "2023-06-23T07:41:09.858000Z",
        "type": [
            "start"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2023-06-23T07:41:09.858000Z",
    "action": {
        "outcome": "success",
        "properties": {
            "hostname": "1.1.1.1",
            "id": "1063",
            "op": "login",
            "terminal": "ssh"
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "id": "2c59eed20c79ccd855d4a9c336ae9e0d2311970d30b87e426ff582032eeef137",
        "version": "v1.1.0+5369595aebc1c30ff2c849af30f51e4d9327584f"
    },
    "client": {
        "address": "1.1.1.1",
        "ip": "1.1.1.1",
        "user": {
            "id": "1063",
            "name": "USER_FOO"
        }
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "foobar.net",
        "name": "foobar.net",
        "os": {
            "type": "linux"
        }
    },
    "network": {
        "direction": "ingress"
    },
    "process": {
        "executable": "/usr/sbin/sshd",
        "name": "sshd",
        "pid": 1750
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "foobar.net"
        ],
        "ip": [
            "1.1.1.1"
        ],
        "user": [
            "USER_FOO"
        ]
    },
    "sekoiaio": {
        "authentication": {
            "process": {
                "name": "sshd"
            }
        },
        "server": {
            "name": "foobar.net",
            "os": {
                "type": "linux"
            }
        }
    },
    "server": {},
    "source": {
        "address": "1.1.1.1",
        "ip": "1.1.1.1"
    },
    "user": {
        "id": "1063",
        "name": "USER_FOO"
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"user\":{\"effective\":{\"id\":\"998\",\"name\":\"stats\"},\"id\":\"unset\",\"name\":\"root\"},\"action\":{\"properties\":{\"old-ses\":\"4294967295\",\"tty\":\"(none)\"}},\"event\":{\"action\":\"changed-login-id-to\",\"provider\":\"SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint\",\"outcome\":\"success\",\"category\":[\"authentication\"],\"type\":[\"start\"]},\"agent\":{\"id\":\"f31fc5ca6f75e383f658d526d9b77273fa45c94e1bcedde5d67b1d05b0e7e6fb\",\"version\":\"v0.6.2+3ed1a7925ff2e6aa758d382bf19c9ea3f1db49c3\"},\"host\":{\"os\":{\"type\":\"linux\"},\"hostname\":\"PC-FOO\"},\"process\":{\"pid\":121806},\"@timestamp\":\"2023-06-23T07:41:09.963Z\"}\n",
    "event": {
        "action": "changed-login-id-to",
        "category": [
            "authentication"
        ],
        "outcome": "success",
        "provider": "SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint",
        "type": [
            "start"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2023-06-23T07:41:09.963000Z",
    "action": {
        "outcome": "success",
        "properties": {
            "old-ses": "4294967295",
            "tty": "(none)"
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "id": "f31fc5ca6f75e383f658d526d9b77273fa45c94e1bcedde5d67b1d05b0e7e6fb",
        "version": "v0.6.2+3ed1a7925ff2e6aa758d382bf19c9ea3f1db49c3"
    },
    "client": {},
    "host": {
        "hostname": "PC-FOO",
        "name": "PC-FOO",
        "os": {
            "type": "linux"
        }
    },
    "process": {
        "pid": 121806
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "PC-FOO"
        ],
        "user": [
            "root"
        ]
    },
    "sekoiaio": {
        "client": {
            "name": "PC-FOO",
            "os": {
                "type": "linux"
            }
        },
        "server": {
            "name": "PC-FOO",
            "os": {
                "type": "linux"
            }
        }
    },
    "server": {},
    "user": {
        "effective": {
            "id": "998",
            "name": "stats"
        },
        "id": "unset",
        "name": "root",
        "target": {
            "id": "998",
            "name": "stats"
        }
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"user\":{\"effective\":{\"name\":\"(invalid user)\"},\"id\":\"unset\",\"name\":\"root\"},\"action\":{\"properties\":{\"acct\":\"(invalid user)\",\"op\":\"login\",\"terminal\":\"sshd\"}},\"event\":{\"action\":\"logged-in\",\"provider\":\"SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint\",\"outcome\":\"failure\",\"category\":[\"authentication\"],\"type\":[\"start\"]},\"agent\":{\"id\":\"9a886b450f79c889a751cb64775e44f60b61dc421130c97cfe37dc214293f390\",\"version\":\"v1.1.0+5369595aebc1c30ff2c849af30f51e4d9327584f\"},\"host\":{\"os\":{\"type\":\"linux\"},\"hostname\":\"PC-FOO\"},\"network\":{\"direction\":\"ingress\"},\"process\":{\"executable\":\"/usr/sbin/sshd\",\"pid\":3799903},\"source\":{\"address\":\"1.1.1.1\",\"ip\":\"1.1.1.1\"},\"@timestamp\":\"2023-06-23T07:41:10.892Z\"}\n",
    "event": {
        "action": "logged-in",
        "category": [
            "authentication"
        ],
        "outcome": "failure",
        "provider": "SEKOIA-IO-Endpoint",
        "type": [
            "start"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2023-06-23T07:41:10.892000Z",
    "action": {
        "outcome": "failure",
        "properties": {
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            "AuthenticationPackageName": "NTLM",
            "EventType": "AUDIT_FAILURE",
            "FailureReason": "%%2313",
            "IpAddress": "1.1.1.1",
            "IpPort": "0",
            "KeyLength": "0",
            "Keywords": "0x8010000000000000",
            "LmPackageName": "-",
            "LogonProcessName": "NtLmSsp ",
            "LogonType": "3",
            "ProcessName": "-",
            "ProviderGuid": "{54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D}",
            "Severity": "LOG_ALWAYS",
            "SourceName": "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing",
            "Status": "0xC000006D",
            "SubStatus": "0xC0000064",
            "SubjectDomainName": "-",
            "SubjectLogonId": "0x0",
            "SubjectUserName": "-",
            "SubjectUserSid": "S-1-0-0",
            "TargetDomainName": "foo-vm",
            "TargetUserName": "foo-vm",
            "TargetUserSid": "S-1-0-0",
            "TransmittedServices": "-",
            "WorkstationName": "WIN-FOO"
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "id": "dd4e2378f7208b8b8557a9b7a725b6d551887b868c72b8cb91668d56eca10c6f",
        "version": "v1.1.0+5369595aebc1c30ff2c849af30f51e4d9327584f"
    },
    "client": {
        "ip": "1.1.1.1"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "foo-vm",
        "name": "foo-vm",
        "os": {
            "type": "windows"
        }
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "foo-vm"
        ],
        "ip": [
            "1.1.1.1"
        ]
    },
    "sekoiaio": {
        "authentication": {
            "process": {
                "name": "NtLmSsp "
            }
        },
        "client": {
            "name": "WIN-FOO",
            "os": {
                "type": "windows"
            }
        },
        "server": {
            "name": "foo-vm",
            "os": {
                "type": "windows"
            }
        }
    },
    "source": {
        "address": "1.1.1.1",
        "ip": "1.1.1.1"
    },
    "user": {
        "id": "S-1-0-0",
        "target": {
            "domain": "foo-vm",
            "id": "S-1-0-0",
            "name": "foo-vm"
        }
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"@timestamp\": \"2022-06-23T13:10:31.7691464Z\",\"agent\": {\"id\": \"3598e70397f8931e6288d7aa4075d336bee33fa6224627218e7b67587c3a62e9\",\"version\": \"0.1.0\"},\"action\": {\"id\": 1151,\"properties\": {\"AS security intelligence creation time\": \"23/06/2022 03:14:37\",\"AS security intelligence version\": \"1.369.112.0\",\"AV security intelligence creation time\": \"23/06/2022 03:14:37\",\"AV security intelligence version\": \"1.369.112.0\",\"BM state\": \"Activ\u00e9\",\"Engine up-to-date\": \"0\",\"Engine version\": \"1.1.19300.2\",\"IOAV state\": \"Activ\u00e9\",\"Keywords\": \"0x8000000000000000\",\"Last AS security intelligence age\": \"0\",\"Last AV security intelligence age\": \"0\",\"Last full scan age\": \"4294967295\",\"Last full scan end time\": \"01/01/1601 00:00:00\",\"Last full scan source\": \"0\",\"Last full scan start time\": \"01/01/1601 00:00:00\",\"Last quick scan age\": \"1\",\"Last quick scan end time\": \"22/06/2022 10:01:43\",\"Last quick scan source\": \"2\",\"Last quick scan start time\": \"22/06/2022 10:00:16\",\"Latest engine version\": \"1.1.19300.2\",\"Latest platform version\": \"4.18.2205.7\",\"NRI engine version\": \"1.1.19300.2\",\"NRI security intelligence version\": \"1.369.112.0\",\"OA state\": \"Activ\u00e9\",\"Platform up-to-date\": \"1\",\"Platform version\": \"4.18.2205.7\",\"Product Name\": \"Antivirus Microsoft Defender\",\"Product status\": \"0x00080000\",\"ProviderGuid\": \"{11CD958A-C507-4EF3-B3F2-5FD9DFBD2C78}\",\"RTP state\": \"Activ\u00e9\",\"Severity\": \"INFO\",\"SourceName\": \"Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender\",\"Unused\": \"\"}},\"event\": {\"code\": 1151,\"provider\": \"Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender\"},\"host\": {\"hostname\": \"test-PC\"}}",
    "event": {
        "code": "1151",
        "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-23T13:10:31.769146Z",
    "action": {
        "id": 1151,
        "properties": {
            "AS security intelligence creation time": "23/06/2022 03:14:37",
            "AS security intelligence version": "1.369.112.0",
            "AV security intelligence creation time": "23/06/2022 03:14:37",
            "AV security intelligence version": "1.369.112.0",
            "BM state": "Activ\u00e9",
            "Engine up-to-date": "0",
            "Engine version": "1.1.19300.2",
            "IOAV state": "Activ\u00e9",
            "Keywords": "0x8000000000000000",
            "Last AS security intelligence age": "0",
            "Last AV security intelligence age": "0",
            "Last full scan age": "4294967295",
            "Last full scan end time": "01/01/1601 00:00:00",
            "Last full scan source": "0",
            "Last full scan start time": "01/01/1601 00:00:00",
            "Last quick scan age": "1",
            "Last quick scan end time": "22/06/2022 10:01:43",
            "Last quick scan source": "2",
            "Last quick scan start time": "22/06/2022 10:00:16",
            "Latest engine version": "1.1.19300.2",
            "Latest platform version": "4.18.2205.7",
            "NRI engine version": "1.1.19300.2",
            "NRI security intelligence version": "1.369.112.0",
            "OA state": "Activ\u00e9",
            "Platform up-to-date": "1",
            "Platform version": "4.18.2205.7",
            "Product Name": "Antivirus Microsoft Defender",
            "Product status": "0x00080000",
            "ProviderGuid": "{11CD958A-C507-4EF3-B3F2-5FD9DFBD2C78}",
            "RTP state": "Activ\u00e9",
            "Severity": "INFO",
            "SourceName": "Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender",
            "Unused": ""
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "id": "3598e70397f8931e6288d7aa4075d336bee33fa6224627218e7b67587c3a62e9",
        "version": "0.1.0"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "test-PC",
        "name": "test-PC"
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "test-PC"
        ]
    }
}

Extracted Fields

The following table lists the fields that are extracted, normalized under the ECS format, analyzed and indexed by the parser. It should be noted that infered fields are not listed.

Name Type Description
@timestamp date Date/time when the event originated.
auditd.data.a1 keyword argument 1 of syscall
auditd.data.a2 keyword argument 2 of syscall
auditd.data.a3 keyword argument 3 of syscall
auditd.data.socket.addr keyword
auditd.data.socket.family keyword
auditd.data.socket.port keyword
auditd.data.syscall keyword name of the invoked system call that generated the event
client.geo.country_iso_code keyword Country ISO code.
client.ip ip IP address of the client.
event.action keyword The action captured by the event.
event.category keyword Event category. The second categorization field in the hierarchy.
event.code keyword Identification code for this event.
event.end date event.end contains the date when the event ended or when the activity was last observed.
event.kind keyword The kind of the event. The highest categorization field in the hierarchy.
event.provider keyword Source of the event.
event.reason keyword Reason why this event happened, according to the source
event.start date event.start contains the date when the event started or when the activity was first observed.
event.type keyword Event type. The third categorization field in the hierarchy.
host.os.type keyword Which commercial OS family (one of: linux, macos, unix or windows).
process.name keyword Process name.
sekoiaio.client.name keyword Name of the client
sekoiaio.server.name keyword Name of the server
sekoiaio.server.os.type keyword OS type of the server
user.target.domain keyword Name of the directory the user is a member of.
user.target.name keyword Short name or login of the user.

Events examples

Here's a non-exhaustive list of events the agent can detect:

  • Files creation/deletion/rename
  • Process lifecycle
  • Remote thread execution
  • DNS Resolution
  • TCP connection
  • Powershell commands
  • WMI Activity
  • NTLM
  • Windows Defender events
  • Sysmon events if configured
  • ...
  • Root commands executions
  • Files creation/deletion/rename/change
  • Process lifecycle
  • TCP connection
  • Python/Perl commands
  • PIP/APT installs
  • Cron configuration & scheduled jobs
  • Sudoers file changes
  • Passwd operations
  • Suspicious activity (curl, wireshark, …)
  • ...

Proxy Support

The Sekoia.io agent can use a proxy server for its HTTPS requests if needed. If you want to enable this feature, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the configuration file at:
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Sekoia.io\EndpointAgent\config.yaml
/etc/endpoint-agent/config.yaml
  1. Add the following line:

    HTTPProxyURL: "<PROXY_URL>"
    

If you want to automate the agent installation with this configuration option, ensure that a config.yaml file with this line is present in the working directory before launching the install command.

The proxy URL should follow the format http://user:pass@host:port.

Optional steps

Install Sysmon

You can collect additional events using Sysmon. When installed, the Sekoia.io Agent will automatically collect Sysmon logs if it hasn't already done so.

Warning

Installing this tool will generate more logs, consuming more CPU resources. Install it on correctly dimensioned equipment or try it on low-risk assets at first.

Sysmon is a Microsoft tool downloadable from microsoft.com. A common installation instruction and configuration file is available on Florian Roth's GitHub. This configuration is an updated (and maintained) version of the SwiftOnSecurity's configuration, which can also be used.

Configure Security log auditing

A proper security log auditing configuration will allow the agent to collect different security-related events.

This document can be followed for an optimal configuration: Configuring Security Log Audit Settings.

Collect DNS resolution events

You can collect DNS resolutions events by enabling it in the agent configuration file:

  1. Edit the configuration file at:

    /etc/endpoint-agent/config.yaml
    
  2. Add the following configuration:

    EnableDNSResolutions: true
    

Once the configuration file is modified, restart the agent:

sudo systemctl restart SEKOIAEndpointAgent.service

Don't compute hashes for files under a specific directory

To avoid having the agent computing hashes for files located under a specific directory the HashesExcludedPaths option can be added to the agent configuration.

If you want to enable this feature, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the configuration file at:

    C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Sekoia.io\EndpointAgent\config.yaml
    
    /etc/endpoint-agent/config.yaml
    
  2. Add the following configuration:

HashesExcludedPaths:
  - C:\path\to\ignore`

Once the configuration file is modified, restart the agent:

Execute the following command as an administrator:

Restart-Service SEKOIAEndpointAgent

Execute the following command:

sudo systemctl restart SEKOIAEndpointAgent.service

Additionnal information

Please find options and arguments available for Sekoia Agent by typing

agent.exe -h

Usage:

agent-latest.exe <command> [<args>]

Options:

Options Meaning
--help, -h display this help and exit
--version display version and exit

Commands:

Commands Meaning
install install the agent
update update the agent
uninstall uninstall the agent

Resources footprint

We monitor the agent metrics and try to keep its footprint as small as possible. Our agent uses, on average, less than 1% of CPU and around 36MB of RAM.

Troubleshoot

The first step to troubleshooting your Sekoia agent installation is to check the logs.

Here are the paths where to find the logs:

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\SEKOIA.IO\EndpointAgent\logs\agent.log
/var/log/endpoint-agent/agent.log

Note

Please always use the latest Sekoia.io agent version. We recommend activating the update option.

If you need further assistance, provide our team with the following information:

1- Results of the setup request in case of failure (stack trace) + machine configuration

2- Logs of the agent

The following Sekoia.io built-in rules match the intake Sekoia.io Endpoint Agent. This documentation is updated automatically and is based solely on the fields used by the intake which are checked against our rules. This means that some rules will be listed but might not be relevant with the intake.

SEKOIA.IO x Sekoia.io Endpoint Agent on ATT&CK Navigator

AD Object WriteDAC Access

Detects WRITE_DAC access to a domain object. This requires Windows Event ID 4662.

  • Effort: advanced
AD Privileged Users Or Groups Reconnaissance

Detect privileged users or groups reconnaissance based on 4661 Event ID and known privileged users or groups SIDs. If the user account name is not a known admin it is suspicious.

  • Effort: master
AD User Enumeration

Detects access to a domain user from a non-machine account. This requires Windows Security Event ID 4662 and could be triggered by some administrators configuring new users.

  • Effort: master
AMSI Deactivation Using Registry Key

The rule detects attempts to deactivate/disable the AMSI provider by deleting the associated registry key.

  • Effort: master
APT29 Fake Google Update Service Install

This method detects malicious services mentioned in APT29 report by FireEye. The legitimate path for the Google update service is C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe so the service names and executable locations used by APT29 are specific enough to be detected in log files.

  • Effort: elementary
Abusing Azure Browser SSO

Detects abusing Azure Browser SSO by requesting OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens for an Azure-AD-authenticated Windows user (i.e. the machine is joined to Azure AD and a user logs in with their Azure AD account) wanting to perform SSO authentication in the browser. An attacker can use this to authenticate to Azure AD in a browser as that user. This technique leverages the COM object (CoCreateInstance), which loads the DLL "C:\Windows\System32\MicrosoftAccountTokenProvider.dll", to get an authentication token. Monitoring the load of this DLL can detect an attacker abusing this technique. More details on this technique are available in the article in the source section. The prerequisite is to log for Loaded DLLs, it can be done using the Sysmon Event ID 7 (DLL image loaded by process).

  • Effort: master
AccCheckConsole Executing Dll

Detects suspicious LOLBIN AccCheckConsole execution with parameters as used to load an arbitrary DLL.

  • Effort: advanced
Account Added To A Security Enabled Group

Detection in order to investigate who has added a specific Domain User in Domain Admins or Group Policy Creator Owners (Security event 4728)

  • Effort: master
Account Removed From A Security Enabled Group

Detection in order to investigate who has removed a specific Domain User in Domain Admins or Group Policy Creator Owners (Security event 4729)

  • Effort: master
Account Tampering - Suspicious Failed Logon Reasons

This method uses uncommon error codes on failed logons to determine suspicious activity and tampering with accounts that have been disabled or somehow restricted. Depending on the network environment some failed logons Status can be added to the list.

  • Effort: advanced
Active Directory Database Dump Via Ntdsutil

Detects the dump of ntdis.dit database by using the utility ntdsutil.exe. NTDS.dit database stores Active Directory data, including passwords hashes for all users in the domain.

  • Effort: elementary
Active Directory Delegate To KRBTGT Service

Detects potential persistence installation from an already compromised administrator domain account. The attacker will create a TGT and abuse a service account with the constrained delegation and update it with the krbtgt service. The detection relies on the Event ID 4738.

  • Effort: intermediate
Active Directory Replication User Backdoor

Backdooring domain object to grant the rights associated with DCSync to regular user or machine account, this technics is often used to give ResetPassword or WriteMembers or DCSync permission(s) for persistency on a domain.

  • Effort: advanced
Active Directory Replication from Non Machine Account

Detects potential abuse of Active Directory Replication Service (ADRS) from a non machine account to request credentials. It requires a configuration step where the legit service account should be added to the exclusion list.

  • Effort: advanced
Active Directory Shadow Credentials

Detects alternative credentials material adding. Attackers can abuse msDS-KeyCredentialLink and create a key pair to obtain a persistent and stealthy access to the target user or computer.

  • Effort: elementary
Active Directory User Backdoors

Detects scenarios where the attacker controls another user or computer account without having to use their credentials.

  • Effort: intermediate
AdFind Usage

Detects the usage of the AdFind tool. AdFind.exe is a free tool that extracts information from Active Directory. Wizard Spider (Bazar, TrickBot, Ryuk), FIN6 and MAZE operators have used AdFind.exe to collect information about Active Directory organizational units and trust objects

  • Effort: elementary
Adexplorer Usage

Detects the usage of Adexplorer, a legitimate tool from the Sysinternals suite that could be abused by attackers as it can saves snapshots of the Active Directory Database.

  • Effort: advanced
Adidnsdump Enumeration

Detects use of the tool adidnsdump for enumeration and discovering DNS records.

  • Effort: advanced
Admin Share Access

Detects access to $ADMIN share. The advanced audit policy setting "Object Access > Audit File Share" must be configured for Success/Failure. Also be very cautious to previously check if this is not commonly used by your administrators as to remotely manage your computers.

  • Effort: master
Admin User RDP Remote Logon

Detects remote login through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) by Administrator user depending on internal pattern. Check before activation the identifiable administrators usernames (pattern or special unique character ("Admin*") to adapt and add some filtering.

  • Effort: master
Advanced IP Scanner

Detects the use of Advanced IP Scanner. Seems to be a popular tool for ransomware groups.

  • Effort: master
Alternate PowerShell Hosts Pipe

Detects alternate PowerShell hosts potentially bypassing detections looking for powershell.exe. Prerequisites are logging for PipeEvents in Sysmon config

  • Effort: advanced
Antivirus Exploitation Framework Detection

Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports an exploitation framework. This is based on Windows Defender logs (Event ID 1116 and 1117).

  • Effort: elementary
Antivirus Password Dumper Detection

Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a password dumper. This detection relies on Windows Defender events logs. This is based on Windows Defender logs (Event ID 1116 and 1117).

  • Effort: elementary
Antivirus Relevant File Paths Alerts

Detects an Antivirus alert in a highly relevant file path or with a relevant file name. This is only based on Windows Defender events.

  • Effort: intermediate
Antivirus Web Shell Detection

Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a web shell. This is based on Windows Defender logs (Event ID 1116 and 1117).

  • Effort: elementary
Aspnet Compiler

Detects the starts of aspnet compiler.

  • Effort: advanced
Audio Capture via PowerShell

Detects audio capture via PowerShell Cmdlet

  • Effort: intermediate
Audit CVE Event

Detects events generated by Windows to indicate the exploitation of a known vulnerability

  • Effort: elementary
AutoIt3 Execution From Suspicious Folder

Detects AutoIt3 execution from an unusual/suspicious folder. Legitimate folders are "Program Files" and "AppData\Local". AutoIt3.exe is a legitimate process used to execute AutoIt program files, which are used by legitimate software, custom scripts, but also malware. Finding AutoIt3 execution from unusual/suspicious folder can help detect malware activities, such as DarkGate execution. The detection rule can be tailored to your environment and your use of AutoIt3 by filtering out folder's execution of legitimate applications or scripts.

  • Effort: advanced
Autorun Keys Modification

Detects modification of autostart extensibility point (ASEP) in registry. Prerequisites are Logging for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: master
AzureEdge in Command Line

Detects use of azureedge in the command line.

  • Effort: advanced
BITSAdmin Download

Detects command to download file using BITSAdmin, a built-in tool in Windows. This technique is used by several threat actors to download scripts or payloads on infected system.

  • Effort: advanced
Backup Catalog Deleted

The rule detects when the Backup Catalog has been deleted. It means the administrators will not be able to access any backups that were created earlier to perform recoveries. This is often being done using the wbadmin.exe tool.

  • Effort: intermediate
BazarLoader Persistence Using Schtasks

Detects possible BazarLoader persistence using schtasks. BazarLoader will create a Scheduled Task using a specific command line to establish its persistence.

  • Effort: intermediate
Bloodhound and Sharphound Tools Usage

Detects default process names and default command line parameters used by Bloodhound and Sharphound tools.

  • Effort: intermediate
Blue Mockingbird Malware

Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird

  • Effort: elementary
CMSTP Execution

Detects various indicators of Microsoft Connection Manager Profile Installer execution

  • Effort: intermediate
CMSTP UAC Bypass via COM Object Access

Detects UAC Bypass Attempt Using Microsoft Connection Manager Profile Installer Autoelevate-capable COM Objects

  • Effort: intermediate
CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Equation Editor Vulnerability

Detects the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The Microsoft Office Equation Editor has no reason to do a network request or drop an executable file. This requires a sysmon configuration with file and network events.

  • Effort: master
CVE-2019-0708 Scan

Detects the use of a scanner that discovers targets vulnerable to CVE-2019-0708 RDP RCE aka BlueKeep.

  • Effort: elementary
CVE-2021-34527 - PrintNightmare - Suspicious Actions From Spoolsv

Detects suspicious image loads and file creations from the spoolsv process which could be a sign of an attacker trying to exploit the PrintNightmare vulnerability, CVE-2021-34527. A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performs privileged file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. This works as well as a Local Privilege escalation vulnerability. To fully work the rule requires to log for Loaded DLLs and File Creations, which can be done respectively using the Sysmon's event IDs 7 and 11.

  • Effort: master
Capture a network trace with netsh.exe

Detects capture a network trace via netsh.exe trace functionality

  • Effort: intermediate
CertOC Loading Dll

Detects when a user installs certificates by using CertOC.exe to loads the target DLL file.

  • Effort: intermediate
Certificate Authority Modification

Installation of new certificate(s) in the Certificate Authority can be used to trick user when spoofing website or to add trusted destinations.

  • Effort: master
Certify Or Certipy

Detects the use of certify and certipy which are two different tools used to enumerate and abuse Active Directory Certificate Services.

  • Effort: advanced
Chafer (APT 39) Activity

Detects previous Chafer (APT 39) activity attributed to OilRig as reported in Nyotron report in March 2018.

  • Effort: intermediate
Change Default File Association

When a file is opened, the default program used to open the file (also called the file association or handler) is checked. File association selections are stored in the Windows Registry and can be edited by users, administrators, or programs that have Registry access or by administrators using the built-in assoc utility. Applications can modify the file association for a given file extension to call an arbitrary program when a file with the given extension is opened.

  • Effort: advanced
Cisco Umbrella Threat Detected

Cisco Umbrella has detected a malicious traffic categorized as malware, phishing or adware.

  • Effort: intermediate
Clear EventLogs Through CommandLine

Detects a command that clears event logs which could indicate an attempt from an attacker to erase its previous traces.

  • Effort: intermediate
Cmd.exe Used To Run Reconnaissance Commands

Detects command lines with suspicious args

  • Effort: advanced
Cmdkey Cached Credentials Recon

Detects usage of cmdkey to look for cached credentials.

  • Effort: intermediate
Cobalt Strike Default Beacons Names

Detects the default names of Cobalt Strike beacons / payloads.

  • Effort: intermediate
Cobalt Strike Default Service Creation Usage

Detects Cobalt Strike usage from an existing beacon when attacker tries to elevate or move laterally through a service creation.

  • Effort: elementary
Cobalt Strike Named Pipes

Detects the pipes established by Cobalt Strike to allow a communication between its beacons.

  • Effort: master
Commonly Used Commands To Stop Services And Remove Backups

Detects specific commands used regularly by ransomwares to stop services or remove backups

  • Effort: intermediate
Compress Data for Exfiltration via Archiver

Detects data compressed by specific tools.

  • Effort: advanced
Computer Account Deleted

Detects computer account deletion.

  • Effort: master
Control Panel Items

Detects the malicious use of a control panel item

  • Effort: advanced
Copy Of Legitimate System32 Executable

A script has copied a System32 executable.

  • Effort: intermediate
Copying Browser Files With Credentials

Detects copy of sensitive data (passwords, cookies, credit cards) included in web browsers files.

  • Effort: elementary
Copying Sensitive Files With Credential Data

Detects copy of files with well-known filenames (sensitive files with credential data) using esentutl. This requires Windows Security event log with the Detailed File Share logging policy enabled.

  • Effort: elementary
CreateRemoteThread Common Process Injection

Detects a possible process injection through CreateRemoteThread() which is spotted by EventID 8 from Sysmon and several EDRs. This rule has a list of process commonly being injected by the attackers that should be updated regularly.

  • Effort: advanced
Creation or Modification of a GPO Scheduled Task

Detects lateral movement using GPO scheduled task, often used to deploy ransomware at scale. This rule is based on the EventID 5145 which is specific to Windows Servers. The advanced audit policy setting Object Access > Audit Detailed File Share must be configured for Success/Failure.

  • Effort: intermediate
Cred Dump Tools Dropped Files

Process with well-known names (parts of credential dump software or files produced by them) creation.

  • Effort: intermediate
Credential Dumping By LaZagne

Detects LSASS process access by LaZagne for credential dumping.

  • Effort: elementary
Credential Dumping Tools Service Execution

Detects well-known credential dumping tools execution via service execution

  • Effort: intermediate
Credential Dumping-Tools Common Named Pipes

Detects well-known credential dumping tools execution via specific named pipes. Prerequisites: Logging for PipeEvents is needed in Sysmon config

  • Effort: master
Csrss Child Found

The csrss.exe process (csrss stands for Client / Server Runtime Subsystem) is a generic Windows process used to manage windows and Windows graphics. This process should not create a child process or it is very rare.

  • Effort: intermediate
Csrss Wrong Parent

The csrss.exe process (csrss stands for Client / Server Runtime Subsystem) is a generic Windows process used to manage windows and Windows graphics. This rule analyse if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
DC Shadow via Service Principal Name (SPN) creation

Detects DCShadow via new Service Principal Name (SPN) creation

  • Effort: intermediate
DCSync Attack

Detects DCSync attack, it is highly likely that the post-exploitation tool Mimikatz was executed.

  • Effort: intermediate
DHCP Callout DLL Installation

Detects the installation of a Callout DLL via CalloutDlls and CalloutEnabled parameter in Registry, which can be used to execute code in context of the DHCP server (restart required).

  • Effort: intermediate
DHCP Server Error Failed Loading the CallOut DLL

This rule detects a DHCP server error in which a specified Callout DLL (in registry) could not be loaded.

  • Effort: intermediate
DHCP Server Loaded the CallOut DLL

This rule detects a DHCP server in which a specified Callout DLL (in registry) was loaded. This would indicate a succesful attack against DHCP service allowing to disrupt the service or alter the integrity of the responses.

  • Effort: intermediate
DLL Load via LSASS Registry Key

Detects a method to load DLL via LSASS process using an undocumented Registry key. Prerequisites are logging for Registry events. This can be done with Sysmon events 12, 13 and 14 and monitor SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.

  • Effort: intermediate
DNS Exfiltration and Tunneling Tools Execution

Well-known DNS exfiltration tools execution

  • Effort: intermediate
DNS Server Error Failed Loading The ServerLevelPluginDLL

This rule detects a DNS server error in which a specified plugin DLL (in registry) could not be loaded. This requires the dedicated Windows event provider Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service.

  • Effort: master
DNS ServerLevelPluginDll Installation

Detects the installation of a plugin DLL via ServerLevelPluginDll parameter in Windows Registry or in command line, which can be used to execute code in context of the DNS server (restart required). To fully use this rule, prerequesites are logging for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12, 13 and 14).

  • Effort: master
DNS Tunnel Technique From MuddyWater

Detecting DNS Tunnel Activity For Muddywater intrusion set. This is the loading of a specific DLL from an Excel macro which is detected.

  • Effort: elementary
DPAPI Domain Backup Key Extraction

Detects tools extracting LSA secret DPAPI domain backup key from Domain Controllers

  • Effort: intermediate
Data Compressed With Rar

An adversary may compress data in order to make it portable and minimize the amount of data sent over the network, this could be done the popular rar command line program.

  • Effort: master
Data Compressed With Rar With Password

An adversary may compress data in order to make it portable and minimize the amount of data sent over the network, this could be done the popular rar command line program. This is a more specific one for rar where the arguments allow to encrypt both file data and headers with a given password.

  • Effort: intermediate
Debugging Software Deactivation

Deactivation of some debugging softwares using taskkill command. It was observed being used by Ransomware operators.

  • Effort: elementary
Default Encoding To UTF-8 PowerShell

Detects PowerShell encoding to UTF-8, which is used by Sliver implants. The command line just sets the default encoding to UTF-8 in PowerShell.

  • Effort: advanced
Denied Access To Remote Desktop

Detects when an authenticated user who is not allowed to log on remotely attempts to connect to this computer through Remote Desktop. This event can be generated by attackers when searching for available windows servers in the network. This rule detects only users from external network.

  • Effort: intermediate
Detection of default Mimikatz banner

Detection of default Mimikatz banner in powershell events

  • Effort: intermediate
Disable .NET ETW Through COMPlus_ETWEnabled

Detects potential adversaries stopping ETW providers recording loaded .NET assemblies. Prerequisites are logging for Registry events or logging command line parameters (both is better). Careful for registry events, if SwiftOnSecurity's SYSMON default configuration is used, you will need to update the configuration to include the .NETFramework registry key path. Same issue with Windows 4657 EventID logging, the registry path must be specified.

  • Effort: intermediate
Disable Security Events Logging Adding Reg Key MiniNt

Detects the addition of a key 'MiniNt' to the registry. Upon a reboot, Windows Event Log service will stopped write events. Prerequisites: Logging for Registry events for this specific registry key is needed in the Sysmon configuration (events 12, 13 and 14).

  • Effort: master
Disable Task Manager Through Registry Key

Detects commands used to disable the Windows Task Manager by modifying the proper registry key in order to impair security tools. This technique is used by the Agent Tesla RAT, among others.

  • Effort: elementary
Disable Windows Defender Credential Guard

Detects registry keys being changed to disable Windows Defender Credential Guard. The rule requires to log Registry Keys modifications or creations, which can be done using Sysmon Event IDs 12,13 and 14.

  • Effort: intermediate
Disable Workstation Lock

Registry change in order to disable the ability to lock the computer by using CTRL+ALT+DELETE or CTRL+L. This registry key does not exist by default. Its creation is suspicious and the value set to "1" means an activation. It has been used by FatalRAT, but other attacker/malware could probably use it. This rule needs Windows Registry changes (add,modification,deletion) logging which can be done through Sysmon Event IDs 12,13,14.

  • Effort: elementary
Disabled IE Security Features

Detects from the command lines or the registry, changes that indicate unwanted modifications to registry keys that disable important Internet Explorer security features. This has been used by attackers during Operation Ke3chang.

  • Effort: advanced
Dism Disabling Windows Defender

Detects windows defender disabled by dism.

  • Effort: advanced
Dllhost Wrong Parent

Dllhost.exe is a process belonging to Microsoft Windows Operating System. The dllhost.exe file manages DLL based applications. This rule analyse if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
Domain Group And Permission Enumeration

Detects adversaries attempts to find domain-level groups and permission settings. Commands such as net group /domain of the Net utility can list domain-level groups The knowledge of domain-level permission groups can help adversaries determine which groups exist and which users belong to a particular group. Adversaries may use this information to determine which users have elevated permissions, such as domain administrators. Wizard Spider, FIN6, and other groups used net in their campaigns.

  • Effort: advanced
Domain Trust Created Or Removed

A trust was created or removed to a domain. An attacker could perform that in order to do lateral movement easily between domains or shutdown the ability of two domains to communicate.

  • Effort: advanced
Domain Trust Discovery Through LDAP

Detects attempts to gather information on domain trust relationships that may be used to identify lateral movement opportunities. "trustedDomain" which is detected here is a Microsoft Active Directory ObjectClass Type that represents a domain that is trusted by, or trusting, the local AD DOMAIN. Several tools are using LDAP queries in the end to get the information (DSQuery, sometimes ADFind as well, etc.)

  • Effort: elementary
Dumpert LSASS Process Dumper

Detects the use of Dumpert process dumper, which dumps the lsass.exe process memory

  • Effort: elementary
Dynwrapx Module Loading

Detects the loading of DynamicWrapperX (Dynwrapx). It is used by some malware in their infection chain and could help to detect its usage from vbs/wscript/cscript scripts. This is based on Microsoft Windows Sysmon events (Event ID 7).

  • Effort: advanced
ETW Tampering

Detects a command that clears or disables any ETW Trace log which could indicate a logging evasion

  • Effort: intermediate
Elise Backdoor

Detects Elise backdoor activity as used by Lotus Blossom

  • Effort: elementary
Empire Monkey Activity

Detects EmpireMonkey APT reported Activity

  • Effort: elementary
Equation Group DLL_U Load

Detects a specific tool and export used by EquationGroup

  • Effort: elementary
Eventlog Cleared

Some threat groups tend to delete local EventLogs (Security being the most common one to be deleted) using certain utilities. The EventID 517 is old and 1102 should be used for this instead on newer Windows versions.

  • Effort: intermediate
Exchange Mailbox Export

Detection of a standard Exchange Mailbox export, which stores all mails from a user in a pst file.

  • Effort: intermediate
Exchange PowerShell Snap-Ins To Export Exchange Mailbox Data

Detects PowerShell SnapIn command line, often used with Get-Mailbox to export Exchange mailbox data.

  • Effort: intermediate
Exchange Server Creating Unusual Files

Look for Microsoft Exchange Server’s Unified Messaging service creating non-standard content on disk, which could indicate web shells or other malicious content, suggesting exploitation of CVE-2021-26858 vulnerability

  • Effort: intermediate
Exchange Server Spawning Suspicious Processes

Look for Microsoft Exchange Server’s Unified Messaging service spawning suspicious sub-processes, suggesting exploitation of CVE-2021-26857 vulnerability.

  • Effort: intermediate
Execution From Suspicious Folder

Detects a suspicious execution from an uncommon folder

  • Effort: master
Exfiltration And Tunneling Tools Execution

Execution of well known tools for data exfiltration and tunneling

  • Effort: advanced
Exfiltration Domain In Command Line

Detects commands containing a domain linked to http exfiltration.

  • Effort: intermediate
Exfiltration Via Pscp

Detects the use of pscp which is a file sharing services.

  • Effort: advanced
Exploit For CVE-2015-1641

Detects Winword process starting uncommon sub process MicroScMgmt.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2015-1641

  • Effort: elementary
Exploit For CVE-2017-0261 Or CVE-2017-0262

Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process FLTLDR.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2017-0261 and CVE-2017-0262. This is a very basic detection method relying on the rare usage of EPS files from Winword.

  • Effort: advanced
Exploited CVE-2020-10189 Zoho ManageEngine

Detects the exploitation of Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central Java Deserialization vulnerability reported as CVE-2020-10189

  • Effort: elementary
Exploiting SetupComplete.cmd CVE-2019-1378

Detects exploitation attempts of privilege escalation vulnerability via SetupComplete.cmd and PartnerSetupComplete.cmd described in CVE-2019-1378

  • Effort: intermediate
Explorer Process Executing HTA File

Detects a suspicious execution of an HTA file by the explorer.exe process. This unusual activity was observed when running IcedID malspam.

  • Effort: intermediate
Explorer Wrong Parent

Detects suspicious spawning of explorer.exe process created by the rundll32.exe or regsvr32.exe. This behaviour is abnormal. Malware injecting itself into the explorer.exe process is quite common, in order to evade process-based defenses.

  • Effort: advanced
External Disk Drive Or USB Storage Device

Detects external diskdrives or plugged in USB device.

  • Effort: advanced
FLTMC command usage

Detects the use of fltmc to list and load/unload a filter driver.

  • Effort: advanced
Failed Logon Source From Public IP Addresses

A login from a public IP can indicate a misconfigured firewall or network boundary. The sekoia.tags are used to filter internal Ipv4 addresses (10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 127.0.0.0/8 169.254.0.0/16 192.168.0.0/16).

  • Effort: master
File Or Folder Permissions Modifications

Adversaries may modify file or directory permissions/attributes to evade access control lists (ACLs) and access protected files.

  • Effort: master
FlowCloud Malware

Detects FlowCloud malware from threat group TA410. This requires Windows Event registry logging.

  • Effort: elementary
FoggyWeb Backdoor DLL Loading

Detects DLL image load activity as used by the threat group NOBELIUM with the FoggyWeb backdoor loader. The prerequisite is to log Loaded DLLs images, which can be done through the Sysmon Event ID 7 (DLL image loaded by process).

  • Effort: master
Formbook File Creation DB1

Detects specific file creation (Users*\AppData\Local\Temp\DB1) to store data to exfiltrate (Formbook behavior). Logging for Sysmon event 11 is usually used for this detection.

  • Effort: intermediate
Formbook Hijacked Process Command

Detects process hijacked by Formbook malware which executes specific commands to delete the dropper or copy browser credentials to the database before sending them to the C2.

  • Effort: intermediate
FromBase64String Command Line

Detects suspicious FromBase64String expressions in command line arguments

  • Effort: master
GPO Executable Delivery

Detects MSI binaries run through GPOs.

  • Effort: intermediate
GitLab CVE-2021-22205

Detects GitLab vulnerability CVE-2021-22205 exploitation success. It allows an attacker to do some remote code execution with user git. The HTTP return code 422 indicates a successfull exploitation.

  • Effort: intermediate
Gpscript Suspicious Parent

Gpscript defines GPO scripts for users and applies them to login / logout sessions. This rule checks if the parent of this process is the supposed one (svchost) or not.

  • Effort: intermediate
Grabbing Sensitive Hives Via Reg Utility

Detects dump of SAM, System or Security hives using reg.exe utility. Adversaries may attempt to dump these Windows Registry to retrieve password hashes and access credentials.

  • Effort: intermediate
HackTools Suspicious Names

Quick-win rule to detect the default process names or file names of several HackTools.

  • Effort: elementary
HackTools Suspicious Process Names In Command Line

Detects the default process name of several HackTools and also check in command line. This rule is here for quickwins as it obviously has many blind spots.

  • Effort: intermediate
HarfangLab EDR Critical Level Rule Detection

HarfangLab EDR has raised an alert based on a critical level rule (not using hlai engine)

  • Effort: master
HarfangLab EDR High Level Rule Detection

HarfangLab EDR has raised an alert based on a high level rule (not using hlai engine)

  • Effort: master
HarfangLab EDR Hlai Engine Detection

HarfangLab EDR has raised an alert based on its hlai engine

  • Effort: master
HarfangLab EDR Low Level Rule Detection

HarfangLab EDR has raised an alert based on a low level rule (not using hlai engine)

  • Effort: master
HarfangLab EDR Medium Level Rule Detection

HarfangLab EDR has raised an alert based on a medium level rule (not using hlai engine)

  • Effort: master
HarfangLab EDR Process Execution Blocked (HL-AI engine)

HarfangLab EDR's machine learning malware detection module (HL-AI) has detected a suspicious binary and blocked its execution. To know more on what caused this alert, you should check the value of the process name and the concerned computer and user.

  • Effort: master
HarfangLab EDR Suspicious Process Behavior Has Been Detected

HarfangLab EDR has detected a suspicious process behavior based on its detection rule. Check the rule name and description for more information.

  • Effort: master
Hiding Files With Attrib.exe

Detects usage of attrib.exe to hide files from users.

  • Effort: advanced
High Privileges Network Share Removal

Detects high privileges shares being deleted with the net share command.

  • Effort: intermediate
Hijack Legit RDP Session To Move Laterally

Identifies suspicious file creations in the startup folder of a remote system. An adversary could abuse this to move laterally by dropping a malicious script or executable that will be executed after a reboot or user logon.

  • Effort: intermediate
ICacls Granting Access To All

Detects suspicious icacls command granting access to all, used by the ransomware Ryuk to delete every access-based restrictions on files and directories. ICacls is a built-in Windows command to interact with the Discretionary Access Control Lists (DACLs) which can grand adversaries higher permissions on specific files and folders.

  • Effort: elementary
IIS Module Installation Using AppCmd

Detects the installation of a new IIS module from the command line. It can used used to backdoor an IIS/OWA/Sharepoint server.

  • Effort: intermediate
IcedID Execution Using Excel

Detects Excel spawning a process (rundll32 or wmic) running suspicious command-line. This behaviour could correspond to IcedID activity.

  • Effort: elementary
Impacket Addcomputer

Detects suspicious computer account creation based on impacket default pattern

  • Effort: intermediate
Impacket Secretsdump.py Tool

Detects credential dumping via secretdump of impacket suite.

  • Effort: intermediate
Impacket Wmiexec Module

Detection of impacket's wmiexec example, used by attackers to execute commands remotely.

  • Effort: elementary
In-memory PowerShell

Detects loading of essential DLL used by PowerShell, but not by the process powershell.exe. Detects meterpreter's "load powershell" extension and tool such PowerShDll.

  • Effort: master
Inhibit System Recovery Deleting Backups

Detects adversaries attempts to delete backups or inhibit system recovery. This rule relies on differents known techniques using Windows events logs from Sysmon (ID 1), and PowerShell (ID 4103, 4104).

  • Effort: intermediate
Invoke-TheHash Commandlets

Detects suspicious Invoke-TheHash PowerShell commandlet used for performing pass the hash WMI and SMB tasks.

  • Effort: elementary
KeePass Config XML In Command-Line

Detects a command-line interaction with the KeePass Config XML file. It could be used to retrieve informations or to be abused for persistence.

  • Effort: intermediate
Kernel Module Alteration

Kernel module installation can be used to configure system settings to automatically execute a program during system boot or logon to maintain persistence or gain higher-level privileges on compromised systems.

  • Effort: advanced
LSASS Access From Non System Account

Detects LSASS Access from Non System Account (e.g. Mimikatz)

  • Effort: master
LSASS Memory Dump

Detects process accessing LSASS memory which is typical for credentials dumping tools. The rule requires Sysmon EventID 10 to work as it is based on the GrantedAccess mask.

  • Effort: master
LSASS Memory Dump File Creation

LSASS memory dump creation using operating systems utilities. Procdump will use process name in output file if no name is specified.

  • Effort: intermediate
Lateral Movement - Remote Named Pipe

Detects lateral movement and remote exec using named pipe over network. This requires Windows Security event logging with the File Share enable policy.

  • Effort: advanced
Lazarus Loaders

Detects different loaders used by the Lazarus Group APT

  • Effort: elementary
Legitimate Process Execution From Unusual Folder

Detects the execution of a legitimate, windows built-in process name from an unusual / suspicious folder. Legitimate folders are c:\windows\system32\, \SystemRoot\system32\, c:\windows\syswow64\ and c:\windows\winsxs. Many malwares/attackers use legitimate names to masquerade but if they are not Administrator yet, they often can't write file into these legitimate folders.

  • Effort: advanced
Leviathan Registry Key Activity

Detects registry key used by Leviathan APT in Malaysian focused campaign.

  • Effort: elementary
List Shadow Copies

Detects command line used to list shadow copies. An adversary may attempt to get information on shadow volumes to perform deletion or extract password hashes from the ntds.dit file. This rule requires command line logging or Windows PowerShell events (4104).

  • Effort: master
Load Of dbghelp/dbgcore DLL From Suspicious Process

Detects the load of dbghelp/dbgcore DLL (used to make memory dumps) by suspicious processes. Many tools import dbghelp.dll and / or dbgcore.dll to use the MiniDumpWriteDump function. As an example, SilentTrynity C2 Framework has a module that leverages this API to dump the contents of Lsass.exe and transfer it over the network back to the attacker's machine. Dumpert from OUTFLANK also uses this.

  • Effort: advanced
Logon Scripts (UserInitMprLogonScript)

Detects creation or execution of UserInitMprLogonScript persistence method. The rule requires to log for process command lines and registry creations or update, which can be done using Sysmon Event IDs 1, 12, 13 and 14.

  • Effort: advanced
Logonui Wrong Parent

Logonui.exe is a file associated with the Logon user interface. The login user interface is an essential part of the Windows operating system. It doesn't only make it easy for the user to log in to the PC but also determines whether the user has logged in and logged out correctly and makes it easy to switch between users. This rule checks if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
Lsass Access Through WinRM

Detects the access of LSASS.exe process through Windows Remote Management (WinRM) protocol. This is often done using Invoke-Mimikatz -ComputerName command, which uses PSRemoting and therefore WinRM. However, this is not limited to the Mimikatz threat and can be done by other tools as well. This rule needs Process Access monitoring, which can be done using Sysmon's event ID 10.

  • Effort: intermediate
Lsass Wrong Parent

Lsass ensures the identification of users (domain users or local users). Domain users are identified based on information in the Active Directory. Local users are identified based on information from the Security Account Manager (SAM) local database. This rule checks if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
MMC Spawning Windows Shell

Detects a Windows command line executable started from MMC process

  • Effort: intermediate
MMC20 Lateral Movement

Detects MMC20.Application Lateral Movement; specifically looks for the spawning of the parent MMC.exe with a command line of "-Embedding" as a child of svchost.exe.

  • Effort: intermediate
MOFComp Execution

Detects rare usage of the Managed Object Format (MOF) compiler on Microsoft Windows. This could be abused by some attackers to load WMI classes.

  • Effort: intermediate
MS Office Product Spawning Exe in User Dir

Detects an executable in the users directory started from Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher or Visio. This is a common technique used by attackers with documents embedding macros. It requires Windows command line logging events.

  • Effort: master
MSBuild Abuse

Detection of MSBuild uses by attackers to infect an host. Focuses on XML compilation which is a Metasploit payload, and on connections made by this process which is unusual.

  • Effort: intermediate
Malicious Browser Extensions

Detects browser extensions being loaded with the --load-extension and -base-url options, which works on Chromium-based browsers. We are looking for potentially malicious browser extensions. These extensions can get access to informations.

  • Effort: advanced
Malicious Named Pipe

Detects the creation of a named pipe used by known malware. Prerequisites are logging for PipeEvents in Sysmon config (Event ID 17 and 18).

  • Effort: intermediate
Malicious PowerShell Keywords

Detects keywords from well-known PowerShell exploitation frameworks

  • Effort: advanced
Malicious Service Installations

Generic and known malicious service installation that appear in cases of lateral movement, credential dumping and other suspicious activity. It detects the use of PAExec, Wannacry commonly used malicious service, APT29 known malicious service name and net user service file name which is known as a sign of persistence.

  • Effort: elementary
Malspam Execution Registering Malicious DLL

Detects the creation of a file in the C:\Datop folder, or DLL registering a file in the C:\Datop folder. Files located in the Datop folder are very characteristic of malspam execution related to Qakbot or SquirrelWaffle. Prerequisites are Logging for File Creation events, which can be done in the Sysmon configuration (events 11), for the first part of the pattern (TargetFilename).

  • Effort: elementary
Malware Persistence Registry Key

Detects registry key used by several malware, especially Formbook spyware in two ways, either the Sysmon registry events, or the commands line.

  • Effort: master
MalwareBytes Uninstallation

Detects command line being used by attackers to uninstall Malwarebytes.

  • Effort: intermediate
MavInject Process Injection

Detects process injection using the signed Windows tool Mavinject32.exe (which is a LOLBAS)

  • Effort: intermediate
Metasploit PSExec Service Creation

Detects Metasploit service creation when using the PSExec module. The ImagePath here is usually a malicious command line using powershell.exe and/or cmd.exe.

  • Effort: advanced
Meterpreter or Cobalt Strike Getsystem Service Installation

Detects the use of getsystem Meterpreter/Cobalt Strike command by detecting some of the techniques being used (technique 1,2 and 5).

  • Effort: elementary
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Configuration Changed

Detects when an feature configuration change is made to Microsoft Windows Defender (enabling or disabling real-time protection, etc.)

  • Effort: master
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Disable Scheduled Tasks

The rule detects attempts to deactivate/disable Windows Defender scheduled tasks via command line

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Disable SecurityHealth

The rule detects attempts to deactivate/disable Windows Defender SecurityHealth through command line and registry. To fully use this rule Windows Registry logging is recommended.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Disable Services

The rule detects attempts to deactivate/disable Windows Defender through command line and registry.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Disable Using Registry

The rule detects attempts to deactivate/disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus using registry modification via command line.

  • Effort: master
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Disabled Base64 Encoded

Detects attempts to deactivate/disable Windows Defender through base64 encoded PowerShell command line.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Exclusion Configuration

Detects when an exclusion configuration change is made to Microsoft Windows Defender (adding either a path or process bypass)

  • Effort: master
Microsoft Defender Antivirus History Deleted

Windows Defender history has been deleted. Could be an attempt by an attacker to remove its traces.

  • Effort: master
Microsoft Defender Antivirus History Directory Deleted

Windows Defender history directory has been deleted. Could be an attempt by an attacker to remove its traces.

  • Effort: elementary
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Restoration Abuse

The rule detects attempts to abuse Windows Defender file restoration tool. The Windows Defender process is allowed to write files in its own protected directory. This functionality can be used by a threat actor to overwrite Windows Defender files in order to prevent it from running correctly or use Windows Defender to execute a malicious DLL.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Set-MpPreference Base64 Encoded

Detects changes of preferences for Windows Defender scan and updates. Configure Windows Defender using base64-encoded commands is suspicious and could be related to malicious activities.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Signatures Removed With MpCmdRun

Detects attempts to remove Windows Defender Signatures using MpCmdRun legitimate Windows Defender executable. No signatures mean Windows Defender will be less effective (or completely useless depending on the option used).

  • Effort: elementary
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Tampering Detected

Detection of Windows Defender Tampering, from definitions' deletion to deactivation of parts or all of Defender.

  • Effort: advanced
Microsoft Defender Antivirus Threat Detected

Detection of a windows defender alert indicating the presence of potential malware

  • Effort: advanced
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Crash

Detects a crash of the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine process (MsMpEng.exe), which is suspicious and could be related to an attacker disabling the Windows protection.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Office Creating Suspicious File

Detects Microsoft Office process (word, excel, powerpoint) creating a suspicious file which corresponds to a script or an executable. This behavior highly corresponds to an executed macro which loads an installation script or a malware payload. The rule requires to log for File Creations to work properly, which can be done through Sysmon Event ID 11.

  • Effort: master
Microsoft Office Product Spawning Windows Shell

Detects a Windows command or scripting interpreter executable started from Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Visio. This typically indicates the parent process launched a malicious macro, or run an exploit. This infection vector is very common and could lead to the deployment of harmful malware.

  • Effort: advanced
Microsoft Office Spawning Script

Detects Microsoft Office process (word, excel, powerpoint) spawning wscript.exe or cscript.exe. This typically indicates the parent process launched a malicious macro, or run an exploit. This infection vector is very common and could lead to the deployment of harmful malware.

  • Effort: intermediate
Microsoft Office Startup Add-In

Detects add-ins that load when Microsoft Word or Excel starts (.wll/.xll are simply .dll fit for Word or Excel). The rule requires File Creation logging to work, which can be done using Sysmon Event ID 11.

  • Effort: elementary
Mimikatz Basic Commands

Detects Mimikatz most popular commands.

  • Effort: elementary
Mimikatz LSASS Memory Access

Detection of in-memory Mimikatz by focusing on processes opening the Local Security Authority (Lsass.exe) process and reading the memory contents of it. This probably means that Mimikatz has been executed on the host, meaning the attacker already has high privileges and is looking to dump credentials, most likely for lateral movement or privilege escalation purposes. The rule requires Sysmon EventID 10 to work as it is based on the GrantedAccess mask.

  • Effort: advanced
Msdt (Follina) File Browse Process Execution

Detects various Follina vulnerability exploitation techniques. This is based on the Compatability Troubleshooter which is abused to do code execution.

  • Effort: elementary
Mshta JavaScript Execution

Identifies suspicious mshta.exe commands that execute JavaScript supplied as a command line argument.

  • Effort: elementary
Mshta Suspicious Child Process

Detects the use of various web request methods executed remotely via Windows PowerShell

  • Effort: intermediate
Mustang Panda Dropper

Detects specific process parameters as used by Mustang Panda droppers

  • Effort: elementary
NTDS.dit File In Suspicious Directory

The file NTDS.dit is supposed to be located mainly in C:\Windows\NTDS. The rule checks whether the file is in a legitimate directory or not (through file creation events). This is usually really suspicious and could indicate an attacker trying copy the file to then look for users password hashes.

  • Effort: advanced
NTDS.dit File Interaction Through Command Line

Detects interaction with the file NTDS.dit through command line. This is usually really suspicious and could indicate an attacker trying copy the file to then look for users password hashes.

  • Effort: intermediate
Narrator Feedback-Hub Persistence

The Windows 10 Narrator's Feedback-Hub registry key has been modified which could be done by an attacker for persistence purposes. Prerequisites are logging for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13). Careful since the SwiftOnSecurity Sysmon's configuration needs to be changed to log for this specifically.

  • Effort: master
Net.exe User Account Creation

Identifies creation of local users via the net.exe command

  • Effort: master
NetNTLM Downgrade Attack

Detects changes in Windows Registry key (LMCompatibilityLevel, NTLMMinClientSec or RestrictSendingNTLMTraffic) which can lead to NetNTLM downgrade attack. The rule requires to log registry keys creation or update, it can be done using Sysmon's Event ID 12,13 and 14.

  • Effort: intermediate
NetSh Used To Disable Windows Firewall

Detects NetSh commands used to disable the Windows Firewall

  • Effort: intermediate
Netsh Allow Command

Netsh command line to allow a program to pass through firewall.

  • Effort: advanced
Netsh Allowed Python Program

Detects netsh command that performs modification on Firewall rules to allow the program python.exe. This activity is most likely related to the deployment of a Python server or an application that needs to communicate over a network. Threat actors could use it for data extraction, hosting a webshell or else.

  • Effort: intermediate
Netsh Port Forwarding

Detects netsh commands that enable a port forwarding between to hosts. This can be used by attackers to tunnel RDP or SMB shares for example.

  • Effort: intermediate
Netsh Port Opening

Detects netsh commands that opens a specific port. Can be used by malware or attackers for lateralisation/exfiltration (e.g. SMB/RDP opening).

  • Effort: master
Netsh Program Allowed With Suspicious Location

Detects Netsh commands that allow a suspcious application location on Windows Firewall, seen on kasidet worm. Last part of the existing rule (commandline startwith) was not added to this rule because it is not relevant.

  • Effort: advanced
Netsh RDP Port Forwarding

Detects netsh commands that configure a port forwarding of port 3389 used for RDP. This is commonly used by attackers during lateralization on windows environments.

  • Effort: elementary
Netsh RDP Port Opening

Detects netsh commands that opens the port 3389 used for RDP, used in Sarwent Malware

  • Effort: intermediate
Network Connection Via Certutil

Identifies certutil.exe making a network connection. Adversaries could abuse certutil.exe to download a certificate, or malware, from a remote URL. The rule excludes private IP addresses and IPV6. This requires Sysmon logging.

  • Effort: intermediate
Network Scanning and Discovery

Tools and command lines used for network discovery from current system

  • Effort: advanced
Network Share Discovery

Adversaries may look for folders and drives shared on remote systems as a means of identifying sources of information to gather as a precursor for Collection and to identify potential systems of interest for Lateral Movement. Networks often contain shared network drives and folders that enable users to access file directories on various systems across a network. File sharing over a Windows network occurs over the SMB protocol. This technique is frequently leveraged by threat actors such as APT32, APT41, Wizard Spider. But also, through the use of some malware such as Cobalt Strike, Empire, PlugX and Ramsay.

  • Effort: master
Network Sniffing

List of common tools used for network packages sniffing

  • Effort: advanced
Network Sniffing Windows

Network sniffing refers to using the network interface on a system to monitor or capture information sent over a wired or wireless connection. An adversary may place a network interface into promiscuous mode to passively access data in transit over the network, or use span ports to capture a larger amount of data.

  • Effort: intermediate
New DLL Added To AppCertDlls Registry Key

Dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that are specified in the AppCertDLLs value in the Registry key can be abused to obtain persistence and privilege escalation by causing a malicious DLL to be loaded and run in the context of separate processes on the computer. Logging for Registry events is needed in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: intermediate
New Or Renamed User Account With '$' In Attribute 'SamAccountName'

Detects possible bypass EDR and SIEM via abnormal user account name.

  • Effort: intermediate
New Service Creation

Detects creation of a new service from command line

  • Effort: advanced
Ngrok Process Execution

Detects possible Ngrok execution, which can be used by attacker for RDP tunneling.

  • Effort: intermediate
NjRat Registry Changes

Detects changes for the RUN registry key which happen when a victim is infected by NjRAT. Please note that even if NjRat is well-known for the behavior the rule catches, the rule is a bit larger and could catch other malwares.

  • Effort: master
NlTest Usage

Detects attempts to gather information on domain trust relationships that may be used to identify lateral movement opportunities. These command lines were observed in numerous attacks, but also sometimes from legitimate administrators for debugging purposes. The rule does not cover very basics commands but rather the ones that are interesting for attackers to gather information on a domain.

  • Effort: advanced
Non-Legitimate Executable Using AcceptEula Parameter

Detects accepteula in command line with non-legitimate executable name. Some attackers are masquerading SysInternals tools with decoy names to prevent detection.

  • Effort: advanced
OceanLotus Registry Activity

Detects registry keys created in OceanLotus (also known as APT32) attack. Logging for Registry events is needed in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: intermediate
Office Application Startup Office Test

Detects the addition of office test registry that allows a user to specify an arbitrary DLL that will be executed everytime an Office application is started. An adversaries may abuse the Microsoft Office "Office Test" Registry key to obtain persistence on a compromised system.

  • Effort: elementary
OneNote Embedded File

Detects creation or uses of OneNote embedded files with unusual extensions.

  • Effort: intermediate
OneNote Suspicious Children Process

In January 2023, a peak of attacks using .one files was observed in the wild. This rule tries to detect the effect of such attempts using this technique.

  • Effort: elementary
Opening Of a Password File

Command line detection of common office software opening some password related file. It could be a security breach if an unauthorized user access it.

  • Effort: master
Outlook Registry Access

Detection of accesses to Microsoft Outlook registry hive, which might contain sensitive information.

  • Effort: master
Pandemic Windows Implant

Detects Pandemic Windows Implant through registry keys or specific command lines. Prerequisites: Logging for Registry events is needed, which can be done in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: intermediate
Password Change On Directory Service Restore Mode (DSRM) Account

The Directory Service Restore Mode (DSRM) account is a local administrator account on Domain Controllers. Attackers may change the password to gain persistence.

  • Effort: intermediate
Password Dumper Activity On LSASS

Detects process handle on LSASS process with certain access mask and object type SAM_DOMAIN

  • Effort: intermediate
PasswordDump SecurityXploded Tool

Detects the execution of the PasswordDump SecurityXploded Tool

  • Effort: elementary
Permission Discovery Via Wmic

Detects discovery of permission on local groups via the tool wmic.

  • Effort: advanced
Phorpiex DriveMgr Command

Detects specific command used by the Phorpiex botnet to execute a copy of the loader during its self-spreading stage. As described by Microsoft, this behavior is unique and easily identifiable due to the use of folders named with underscores "__" and the PE name "DriveMgr.exe".

  • Effort: elementary
Phorpiex Process Masquerading

Detects specific process executable path used by the Phorpiex botnet to masquerade its system process network activity. It looks for a pattern of a system process executable name that is not legitimate and running from a folder that is created via a random algorithm 13-15 numbers long.

  • Effort: elementary
Phosphorus (APT35) Exchange Discovery

According to the Miscosoft's report, the group Phosphorus (part of APT35) uses a specific PowerShell command to collect information about its the environment of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers. The command is the following: Get-Recipient | Select Name -ExpandProperty EmailAddresses -first 1 | Select SmtpAddress | ft -hidetableheaders

  • Effort: elementary
Phosphorus Domain Controller Discovery

According to the Miscosoft's report, the group Phosphorus (part of APT35) uses a specific PowerShell command to collect information about the Domain Controller. The command is the following: "powershell.exe" /c Get-WMIObject Win32_NTDomain | findstr DomainController

  • Effort: intermediate
Possible Replay Attack

This event can be a sign of Kerberos replay attack or, among other things, network device configuration or routing problems.

  • Effort: intermediate
Possible RottenPotato Attack

Detects logon events that have characteristics of events generated during an attack leveraging RottenPotato.

  • Effort: intermediate
Potential RDP Connection To Non-Domain Host

Detects logons using NTLM to hosts that are potentially not part of the domain using RDP (TermSrv). Event ID 8001 corresponds to outgoing NTLM authentication traffic and TermSrv stands for RDP Terminal Services Server. Check if the contacted host is legitimate. To use this detection rule, enable logging of outbound NTLM authentications on all domain controllers, using the following Group Policy (GPO) - Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > Network security: Restrict NTLM: Outgoing NTLM traffic to remote servers -> Define this policy setting: Audit all.

  • Effort: master
PowerCat Function Loading

Detect a basic execution of PowerCat. PowerCat is a PowerShell function allowing to do basic connections, file transfer, shells, relays, generate payloads.

  • Effort: intermediate
PowerShell - NTFS Alternate Data Stream

Detects writing data into NTFS alternate data streams from PowerShell. Needs Script Block Logging (Event ID 4104)

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell AMSI Deactivation Bypass Using .NET Reflection

Detects Request to amsiInitFailed that can be used to disable AMSI (Antimalware Scan Interface) Scanning. More information about Antimalware Scan Interface https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/amsi/antimalware-scan-interface-portal.

  • Effort: elementary
PowerShell Credential Prompt

Detects PowerShell calling a credential prompt (using PromptForCredential) ex: $Credential = $host.ui.PromptForCredential("Need credentials", "Please enter your user name and password.", "", "NetBiosUserName") The same result can be obtained by using the Get-Credential function but detecting it will trigger a lot of FP

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell Data Compressed

Detects data compression through a PowerShell command (could be used by an adversary for exfiltration)

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell Downgrade Attack

Detects PowerShell downgrade attack by comparing the host versions with the actually used engine version 2.0

  • Effort: elementary
PowerShell Download From URL

Detects a Powershell process that contains download commands in its command line string

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell EncodedCommand

Detects popular file extensions in commands obfuscated in base64 run through the EncodedCommand option.

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell Execution Via Rundll32

Detects PowerShell Strings applied to rundll as seen in PowerShdll.dll Rule modified

  • Effort: intermediate
PowerShell Invoke Expression With Registry

Detects keywords from well-known PowerShell techniques to get registry key values

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell Invoke-Obfuscation Obfuscated IEX Invocation

Detects all variations of obfuscated powershell IEX invocation code generated by Invoke-Obfuscation framework

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell Malicious Nishang PowerShell Commandlets

Detects Commandlet names and arguments from the Nishang exploitation framework

  • Effort: advanced
PowerShell Malicious PowerShell Commandlets

Detects Commandlet names from well-known PowerShell exploitation frameworks (PowerSploit...)

  • Effort: master
PowerView commandlets 1

Detects PowerView commandlets which perform network and Windows domain enumeration and exploitation. It provides replaces for almost all Windows net commands, letting you query users, machines, domain controllers, user descriptions, share, sessions, and more.

  • Effort: advanced
PowerView commandlets 2

Detects PowerView commandlets which perform network and Windows domain enumeration and exploitation. It provides replaces for almost all Windows net commands, letting you query users, machines, domain controllers, user descriptions, share, sessions, and more.

  • Effort: advanced
Powershell AMSI Bypass

This rule aims to detect attempts to bypass AMSI in powershell using specific techniques.

  • Effort: advanced
Powershell UploadString Function

Powershell's uploadXXX functions are a category of methods which can be used to exfiltrate data through native means on a Windows host.

  • Effort: intermediate
Powershell Web Request

Detects the use of various web request methods executed remotely via Windows PowerShell

  • Effort: advanced
Powershell Winlogon Helper DLL

Detects modifications to the Winlogon Registry keys, which may cause Winlogon to load and execute malicious DLLs and/or executables.

  • Effort: intermediate
Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts (PEAS)

Detect PEAS privileges escalation scripts and binaries

  • Effort: elementary
Privileged AD Builtin Group Modified

Detects changes to privileged AD builtin groups in Active Directory that could indicate malicious or unexpected administrative activity. This detection rule detects changes on specific groups that are Administrators (S-1-5--500), Domain Admins (S-1-5--512), Enterprise Admins (S-1-5--519), Schema Admins (S-1-5--518), Account Operators (S-1-5-32-548) and Backup Operators (S-1-5-32-551).

  • Effort: master
Process Herpaderping

Detection of process herpaderping using Sysmon Event ID 25. It detects that an image has been locked for access. Several processes have been excluded to avoid FPs.

  • Effort: master
Process Hollowing Detection

Detection of process hollowing using Sysmon Event ID 25. It detects that an image has been replaced in a process memory.

  • Effort: master
Process Memory Dump Using Comsvcs

Detects the use of comsvcs in command line to dump a specific proces memory. This techinique is widlely used by attackers for privilege escalation and pivot.

  • Effort: elementary
Process Memory Dump Using Createdump

Detects the use of createdump.exe in command line to dump the memory of a process. This technique is used by attackers for privilege escalation and pivot.

  • Effort: elementary
Process Memory Dump Using Rdrleakdiag

Detects the use of rdrleakdiag.exe in command line to dump the memory of a process. This technique is used by attackers for privilege escalation and pivot.

  • Effort: elementary
Protected Storage Service Access

Detects access to a protected_storage service over the network. It could identify potential abuse of DPAPI to extract domain backup keys from Domain Controllers.

  • Effort: master
PsExec Process

Detects PsExec execution, command line which contains pstools or installation of the PsExec service. PsExec is a SysInternals which can be used to execute a program on another computer. The tool is as much used by attackers as by administrators.

  • Effort: advanced
Putty Sessions Listing

Detects attempts to list Putty sessions through registry. To fully work, this rule requires to log registry accesses, which can be done with the Windows Event ID 4656 or 4663 but for that specific configuration is needed.

  • Effort: master
Python HTTP Server

Detects command used to start a Simple HTTP server in Python. Threat actors could use it for data extraction, hosting a webshell or else.

  • Effort: intermediate
Python Opening Ports

Detects when the Windows Filtering Platform has permitted Python.exe to listen on a port for incoming connections. This activity is most likely related to the deployment of a Python server or an application that needs to communicate over a network. Threat actors could use it for data extraction, hosting a webshell or else.

  • Effort: advanced
QakBot Process Creation

Detects QakBot like process executions

  • Effort: intermediate
Qakbot Persistence Using Schtasks

Detects possible Qakbot persistence using schtasks.

  • Effort: intermediate
RDP Login From Localhost

Detects RDP login from localhost source address, which may be a tunnelled login to bypass network restrictions.

  • Effort: advanced
RDP Port Change Using Powershell

Detects RDP port configuration change using a PowerShell command such as 'Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp" -Name PortNumber -Value XXX Restart-Service termservice -force'. Threat actors can change RDP to another port to bypass protections, avoid detection based on the port, or to take full control of the system.

  • Effort: intermediate
RDP Sensitive Settings Changed

Detects changes to RDP terminal service sensitive settings. Logging for registry events is needed in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: advanced
RDP Session Discovery

Detects use of RDP session discovery via qwinsta or quser. Used by some threat actors to know if someone is working via RDP on a server.

  • Effort: advanced
RTLO Character

Detects RTLO (Right-To-Left character) in file and process names.

  • Effort: elementary
RUN Registry Key Created From Suspicious Folder

Detects the suspicious RUN keys created by software located in Download or temporary Outlook/Internet Explorer directories. Prerequisites are logging for Registry events, which can be done with Sysmon (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: advanced
Raccine Uninstall

Detects commands that indicate a Raccine removal from an end system. Raccine is a free ransomware protection tool.

  • Effort: elementary
Rare Logonui Child Found

Logonui.exe is a file associated with the Logon user interface. The login user interface is an essential part of the Windows operating system. It not only makes it easy for the user to log in to the PC but also determines whether the user has logged in and logged out correctly and makes it easy to switch between users. This process could create a child process but it is very rare and could be a signal of some process injection.

  • Effort: advanced
Rare Lsass Child Found

Lsass ensures the identification of users (domain users or local users). Domain users are identified based on information in the Active Directory. Local users are identified based on information from the Security Account Manager (SAM) local database. This process should not create a child process or it is very rare.

  • Effort: intermediate
Rclone Process

Detects Rclone executable or Rclone execution by using the process name, the execution through a command obfuscated or not.

  • Effort: advanced
RedMimicry Winnti Playbook Dropped File

Detects actions caused by the RedMimicry Winnti playbook

  • Effort: elementary
RedMimicry Winnti Playbook Registry Manipulation

Detects actions caused by the RedMimicry Winnti playbook. Logging for Registry events is needed in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: elementary
Registry Checked For Lanmanserver DisableCompression Parameter

Detects registry access for Lanmanserver\Parameters. The check of the value DisableCompression could be a sign of an attack trying to exploit SMBGhost vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796).

  • Effort: master
Registry Key Used By Some Old Agent Tesla Samples

Detects potential use of the RUN registry key to execute some Agent Tesla samples at boot. Prerequisites are to log for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: intermediate
Registry Persistence Using 'Image File Execution' And 'SilentProcessExit' Keys

Detects persistence registry keys. Logging for Registry events is needed, it can be done in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: master
Remote Monitoring and Management Software - AnyDesk

Detect artifacts related to the installation or execution of the Remote Monitoring and Management tool AnyDesk.

  • Effort: master
Remote Privileged Group Enumeration

Detects remote listing of local privileged group. Potential false positives, which should justify alert filters, are service accounts and administrators doing maintenance.

  • Effort: advanced
Remote Registry Management Using Reg Utility

Remote registry management using REG utility from non-admin workstation. This requires Windows Security events logging.

  • Effort: master
Remote Service Activity Via SVCCTL Named Pipe

Detects remote service activity via remote access to the svcctl named pipe

  • Effort: advanced
Remote Task Creation Via ATSVC Named Pipe

Detects remote task creation via at.exe or API interacting with ATSVC Named Pipe. This requires Windows Security event logging with the File Share policy.

  • Effort: intermediate
Rubeus Register New Logon Process

Detects potential use of Rubeus through registering a new logon process. This rule needs the EventID 4611, which can be configured through Group Policies (Audit Security System Extension)

  • Effort: master
Rubeus Tool Command-line

Detects command line parameters used by Rubeus, a toolset to interact with Kerberos and abuse it.

  • Effort: advanced
Ryuk Ransomware Command Line

Detects Ryuk Ransomware - Command lines stop services.

  • Effort: elementary
Ryuk Ransomware Persistence Registry Key

Detects registry key used by the Ryuk ransomware in two ways, either the Sysmon registry events, or the command line (reg add).

  • Effort: intermediate
SAM Registry Hive Handle Request

Detects handles requested to SAM registry hive

  • Effort: advanced
SCM Database Handle Failure

Detects non-system users failing to get a handle of the SCM database.

  • Effort: master
SCM Database Privileged Operation

Detects non-system users performing privileged operation on the SCM database

  • Effort: master
SOCKS Tunneling Tool

Detects the usage of a SOCKS tunneling tool, often used by threat actors. These tools often use the socks5 commandline argument, however socks4 can sometimes be used as well. Unfortunately, socks alone (without any number) triggered too many false positives.

  • Effort: intermediate
SSH Tunnel Traffic

When a user creates and uses a SSH tunnel in Linux, the sshd process opens sockets to communicate with other machines or ports. With SSH tunneling, the SSH server can be used as a getaway to access internal systems. The traffic will seem to be coming from the SSH server whereas it only acts as a relay for an attacker. By using this technique, an attacker can successfully bypass external firewall rules and gain foothold to your network, allowing him to scan,hunt and attack your internal systems. This rule includes a filter on port 22, this filter is created to avoid false positive when a user is connecting via ssh. If you do not use port 22 for your machines, please create an alert filter.

  • Effort: advanced
SSH X11 Forwarding

When a user creates and uses SSH X11 Forwarding in Linux, the sshd process opens sockets to communicate with the client machine via a ssh tunnel. X11 forwarding is used to deport graphic programs on the client side.

  • Effort: advanced
STRRAT Scheduled Task

Detect STRRAT when it achieves persistence by creating a scheduled task. STRRAT is a Java-based stealer and remote backdoor, it establishes persistence using this specific command line: 'cmd /c schtasks /create /sc minute /mo 30 /tn Skype /tr "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\SAMPLENAME.jar"'

  • Effort: intermediate
Schtasks Persistence With High Privileges

Detection of scheduled task with high privileges used by attacker for persistence.

  • Effort: elementary
Schtasks Suspicious Parent

Detects schtasks started from suspicious and/or unusual processes.

  • Effort: intermediate
SeEnableDelagationPrivilege Granted To User Or Machine In Active Directory

Detects the SeEnableDelegationPrivilege right in Active Directory granted to a user of a computer, it would allow control of other AD user objects

  • Effort: elementary
Searchindexer Wrong Parent

Detects if the Search Indexer was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Search Indexer is the Windows service that handles indexing of your files for Windows Search.

  • Effort: advanced
Searchprotocolhost Child Found

SearchProtocolHost.exe is part of the Windows Indexing Service, an application that indexes files from the local drive making them easier to search. This is a crucial part of the Windows operating system. This process should not create a child process or it is very rare.

  • Effort: intermediate
Searchprotocolhost Wrong Parent

Detects if the Search Protocol Host process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Search Protocol Host is part of the Windows Indexing Service, a service indexing files on the local drive making them easier to search.

  • Effort: advanced
Secure Deletion With SDelete

Detects renaming of file while deletion with SDelete tool. SDelete is a tool that permits to securely delete files by overwriting them (no recovery possible). Few threat actors are using it to delete traces of their malware.

  • Effort: intermediate
Security Support Provider (SSP) Added to LSA Configuration

Detects the addition of a SSP to the registry. This is commonly used for persistence. Upon a reboot or API call, SSP DLLs gain access to encrypted and plaintext passwords stored in Windows. Logging for Registry events is needed for this rule to work (this can be done through Sysmon EventIDs 12 and 13).

  • Effort: elementary
Sliver DNS Beaconing

Detects suspicious DNS queries known from Sliver beaconing

  • Effort: intermediate
Smbexec.py Service Installation

Detects the use of smbexec.py tool by detecting a specific service installation

  • Effort: elementary
Smss Wrong Parent

Detects if the Smss process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Session Manager Subsystem (smss) process is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems.

  • Effort: advanced
SolarWinds Suspicious File Creation

Detects SolarWinds process creating a file with a suspicious extension. The process solarwinds.businesslayerhost.exe created an unexpected file whose extension is ".exe", ".ps1", ".jpg", ".png" or ".dll".

  • Effort: intermediate
SolarWinds Wrong Child Process

Detects SolarWinds process starting an unusual child process. Process solarwinds.businesslayerhost.exe and solarwinds.businesslayerhostx64.exe created an unexepected child process which doesn't correspond to the legitimate ones.

  • Effort: intermediate
Spoolsv Wrong Parent

Detects if the Spoolsv process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Printer Spooler Service (Spoolsv) process is responsible for managing spooled print/fax jobs.

  • Effort: advanced
Spyware Persistence Using Schtasks

Detects possible Agent Tesla or Formbook persistence using schtasks. The name of the scheduled task used by these malware is very specific (Updates/randomstring).

  • Effort: intermediate
SquirrelWaffle Malspam Execution Loading DLL

Detects cscript running suspicious command to load a DLL. This behavior has been detected in SquirrelWaffle campaign.

  • Effort: intermediate
Sticky Key Like Backdoor Usage

Detects the usage and installation of a backdoor that uses an option to register a malicious debugger for built-in tools that are accessible in the login screen. Prerequisites are logging for Registry events, which can be done with Sysmon (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: elementary
StoneDrill Service Install

This method detects a service install of the malicious Microsoft Network Realtime Inspection Service service described in StoneDrill report by Kaspersky

  • Effort: intermediate
Stop Backup Services

Detects adversaries attempts to stop backups services or disable Windows previous files versions feature. This could be related to ransomware operators or legit administrators. This rule relies Windows command line logging and registry logging, and PowerShell (ID 4103, 4104).

  • Effort: master
Successful Overpass The Hash Attempt

Detects successful logon with logon type 9 (NewCredentials) which matches the Overpass the Hash behavior of e.g Mimikatz's sekurlsa::pth module.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suncrypt Parameters

Detects SunCrypt ransomware's parameters, most of which are unique.

  • Effort: elementary
Suspect Svchost Memory Access

Detects suspect access to svchost process memory such as that used by Invoke-Phantom (v1.0) to kill the winRM windows event logging service.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious ADSI-Cache Usage By Unknown Tool

Detects the usage of ADSI (LDAP) operations by tools. This may also detect tools like LDAPFragger. It needs file monitoring capabilities (Sysmon Event ID 11 with .sch file creation logging).

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Access To Sensitive File Extensions

Detects known sensitive file extensions accessed on a network share. This activity could possibly correspond to a malicious one (removing backup, reading sensitive files, etc.).

  • Effort: master
Suspicious Cmd File Copy Command To Network Share

Copy suspicious files through Windows cmd prompt to network share

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Cmd.exe Command Line

Detection on suspicious cmd.exe command line seen being used by some attackers (e.g. Lazarus with Word macros). This requires Windows process command line logging.

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious CodePage Switch with CHCP

Detects a code page switch in command line

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Control Process

Detects suspicious execution of control.exe process when used to execute a DLL file.

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious DLL Loaded Via Office Applications

Detects suspicious DLL being loaded by an Microsoft Office Product. Considered as suspects are some .NET DLLs, clr.dll, GAC DLL, DSParse (Active Directoryi services API) or Kerberos DLLs which may be loaded by MS Office processes when executing a potentially malicious macro. The prerequisite is to log the Sysmon Event ID 7 (DLL image loaded by process).

  • Effort: master
Suspicious DLL Loading By Ordinal

Detects suspicious DLL Loading by ordinal number in a non legitimate or rare folders. For example, Sofacy (APT28) used this technique to load their Trojan in a campaign of 2018.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious DLL side loading from ProgramData

Detects suspicious DLL side-loading from C:\ProgramData where the DLL is not signed.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious DNS Child Process

Detects suspicious processes spawned by the dns.exe process. It could be a great indication of the exploitation of the DNS RCE bug reported in CVE-2020-1350 (SIGRED).

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Desktopimgdownldr Execution

Detects a suspicious Desktopimgdownldr execution. Desktopimgdownldr.exe is a Windows binary used to configure lockscreen/desktop image and can be abused to download malicious file.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Double Extension

Detects suspicious use of an .exe extension after a non-executable file extension like .pdf.exe, a set of spaces or underlines to cloak the executable file in spearphishing campaigns

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Driver Loaded

Checks the registry key for suspicious driver names that are vulnerable most of the time and loaded in a specific location by the KDU tool from hfiref0x. Some drivers are used by several SysInternals tools, which should have been whitelisted in the filter condition. The driver named "DBUtilDrv2" has been removed as it caused too many false positives unfortunately. It can be added under "drv_name" if more coverage is wanted. This rule needs registry key monitoring (can be done with Sysmon Event IDs 12,13 and 14).

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Finger Usage

Detects suspicious aged finger.exe tool execution often used in malware attacks nowadays. An attacker can use finger to silently retrieve a command, a script or a payload from a remote server. For example, the tool Darkfinger-C2 uses this technique to download files from the C2 channel.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious HWP Child Process

Detects suspicious Hangul Word Processor (HWP) child process that could indicate an exploitation as used by the Lazarus APT during the Operation Ghost Puppet (2018). This activity could correspond to a maldoc execution related to a .hwp file. Hangul is a proprietary word processing application that supports the Korean written language.

  • Effort: elementary
Suspicious Headless Web Browser Execution To Download File

Detects a suspicious command used to execute a Chromium-based web browser (Chrome or Edge) using the headless mode, meaning that the browser window wouldn't be visible, and the dump mode to download a file. This technique can be used to fingerprint the compromised host, in particular by the Ducktail infostealer.

  • Effort: elementary
Suspicious Hostname

Detects suspicious hostnames such as ones with kali in it, to detect kali linux default hosts, but also other hostnames commonly used in attacks. List can be improved according to the environment.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious LDAP-Attributes Used

Detects the usage of particular AttributeLDAPDisplayNames, which are known for data exchange via LDAP by the tool LDAPFragger and are additionally not commonly used in companies. Careful as the 5136 is only on domain controllers and needs to be activated through the Group Policy.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Microsoft Defender Antivirus Exclusion Command

Detects PowerShell commands aiming to exclude path, process, IP address, or extension from scheduled and real-time scanning. These commands can be used by attackers or malware to avoid being detected by Windows Defender. Depending on the environment and the installed software, this detection rule could raise false positives. We recommend customizing this rule by filtering legitimate processes that use Windows Defender exclusion command in your environment.

  • Effort: master
Suspicious Mshta Execution

Detects suspicious mshta.exe execution patterns, either involving file polyglotism, remote file (http, ftp or ldap) or suspicious location. This technique is often used by threat actors.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Mshta Execution From Wmi

Detects mshta executed by wmiprvse as parent. It has been used by TA505 with some malicious documents.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Netsh DLL Persistence

Detects persitence via netsh helper. Netsh interacts with other operating system components using dynamic-link library (DLL) files. Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by Netsh Helper DLLs.

  • Effort: elementary
Suspicious Network Args In Command Line

Detection on some commonly observed suspicious processes command lines using HTTP schema with port 443.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious New Printer Ports In Registry

Detects a suspicious printer port creation in Registry that could be an attempt to exploit CVE-2020-1048. The CVE-2020-1048 consists in gaining persistence, privilege by abusing a flaw in the Print Spooler service to execute a payload whose path is stored in the registry key. To fully use this rule, prerequesites are logging for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12, 13 and 14).

  • Effort: master
Suspicious Outbound Kerberos Connection

Detects suspicious outbound network activity via kerberos default port indicating possible lateral movement or first stage PrivEsc via delegation.

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Outlook Child Process

Detects suspicious child processes of Microsoft Outlook. These child processes are often associated with spearphishing activity.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious PROCEXP152.sys File Created In Tmp

Detects the creation of the PROCEXP152.sys file in the application-data local temporary folder. This driver is used by Sysinternals Process Explorer but also by KDU (https://github.com/hfiref0x/KDU) or Ghost-In-The-Logs (https://github.com/bats3c/Ghost-In-The-Logs), which uses KDU. Note - Clever attackers may easily bypass this detection by just renaming the driver filename. Therefore just Medium-level and don't rely on it.

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious PowerShell Invocations - Generic

Detects suspicious PowerShell invocation command parameters through command line logging or ScriptBlock Logging.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious PowerShell Invocations - Specific

Detects suspicious PowerShell invocation command parameters

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious PowerShell Keywords

Detects keywords that could indicate the use of some PowerShell exploitation framework

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious PrinterPorts Creation (CVE-2020-1048)

Detects new commands that add new printer port which point to suspicious file

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Process Requiring DLL Starts Without DLL

Detects potential process injection and hollowing on processes that usually require a DLL to be launched, but are launched without any argument.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious PsExec Execution

Detects execution of PsExec, different from the Sysinternals one. This rule helps to filter out the noise if PsExec is used for legit purposes or if attacker uses a different PsExec client other than Sysinternals one. The prerequisite is to log the Event ID 5145 (by setting "Audit Policy > Object Access > Audit Detailed File Share" to Success/Failure).

  • Effort: master
Suspicious Regasm Regsvcs Usage

catch abuse of regsvcs and regasm lolbin by attacker

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Regsvr32 Execution

Detects suspicious regsvr32.exe executions, either regsvr32 registering a DLL in an unusual repository (temp/, appdata/ or public/), or regsvr32 executed by an unusual parent process, or regsvr32 executing an unusual process, or regsvr32 registering a media file and not a DLL (as seen in IcedID campaigns), or regsvr32 registering a ocx file in appdata/.

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Rundll32.exe Execution

The process rundll32.exe executes a newly dropped DLL with update /i in the command line. This specific technic was observed at least being used by the IcedID loading mechanism dubbed Gziploader.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious SAM Dump

Detects suspicious SAM dump to AppData repository, as cause by QuarksPwDump and other password dumpers. Logging for Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General Event ID 16 or Sysmon Event ID 11 is needed.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Scheduled Task Creation

Detects suspicious scheduled task creation, either executed by a non-system user or a user who is not administrator (the user ID is not S-1-5-18 or S-1-5-18-*). This detection rule doesn't match Sysmon EventID 1 because the user SID is always set to S-1-5-18.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Scripting In A WMI Consumer

Detects suspicious scripting in WMI Event Consumers. The rule requires to log WMI Consumers, which can be done through Sysmon's Event IDs 20 and 21.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Taskkill Command

Detects rare taskkill command being used. It could be related to Baby Shark malware.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious VBS Execution Parameter

Detects suspicious VBS file execution with a specific parameter by cscript. It was observed in the Operation CloudHopper.

  • Effort: elementary
Suspicious Windows ANONYMOUS LOGON Local Account Created

Detects the creation of suspicious accounts simliar to ANONYMOUS LOGON, such as using additional spaces. Created as a covering detection for attackers trying to created an ANONYMOUS LOGON account as it is an account named used in internal Windows events and frequently filtered by attackers.

  • Effort: elementary
Suspicious Windows DNS Queries

Detects a suspicious Windows command-line process making a DNS query via known abuse text paste web services. This is based on Microsoft Windows Sysmon events (Event ID 22).

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious Windows Installer Execution

Detects suspicious execution of the Windows Installer service (msiexec.exe) which could be used to install a malicious MSI package hosted on a remote server.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious Windows Script Execution

Detects wscript.exe or cscript.exe executing a script in user directories (C:\ProgramData or C:\Users) with a .txt extension, which is very suspicious. It could strongly correspond to a malware dropper, as seen during SquirrelWaffle maldoc campaign.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious XOR Encoded PowerShell Command Line

Detects suspicious powershell process which includes bxor command, alternative obfuscation method to b64 encoded commands.

  • Effort: advanced
Suspicious certutil command

Detects suspicious certutil command which can be used by threat actors to download and/or decode payload.

  • Effort: intermediate
Suspicious desktop.ini Action

Detects unusual processes accessing desktop.ini, which can be leveraged to alter how Explorer displays a folder's content (i.e. renaming files) without changing them on disk.

  • Effort: advanced
Svchost DLL Search Order Hijack

Detects svchost process hijacking through DLL loading. IKEEXT and SessionEnv service, as they call LoadLibrary on files that do not exist within C:\Windows\System32\ by default. An attacker can place their malicious logic within the PROCESS_ATTACH block of their library and restart the aforementioned services "svchost.exe -k netsvcs" to gain code execution on a remote machine.

  • Effort: master
Svchost Modification

Detects the modification of svchost in the registry.

  • Effort: advanced
Svchost Wrong Parent

Detects if the svchost.exe process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Svchost (Service Host Process) is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).

  • Effort: advanced
SysKey Registry Keys Access

Detects handle requests and access operations to specific registry keys to calculate the SysKey. The SysKey allows to decrypt Security Account Mannager (SAM) database entries (from registry or hive) and get NTLM, and sometimes LM hashes of local accounts passwords. Adversaries can calculate the Syskey by using RegOpenKeyEx/RegQueryInfoKey API calls to query the appropriate class info and values from the HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\JD, HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Skew1, HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\GBG, and HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Data keys.

  • Effort: elementary
Sysmon Windows File Block Executable

Sysmon has blocked an executable file from being written to the disk. This could be a malicious binary to investigate.

  • Effort: master
Sysprep On AppData Folder

Detects suspicious Sysprep process start with AppData folder as target (as used by Trojan Syndicasec in Thrip report by Symantec). Sysprep is a Windows tool used to change Windows images from a generalized state to a specialized state, and then back to a generalized state. It can be used to remove all system-specific information and reset the computer.

  • Effort: intermediate
System Info Discovery

System info discovery, attempt to detects basic command use to fingerprint a host

  • Effort: master
TUN/TAP Driver Installation

Detects the installation of the TUN or TAP driver service, this activity could be related to data exfiltration using tunneling techniques. The TUN/TAP Windows Adapter is a network driver that enables some VPN providers to facilitate a VPN connection to their server. TUN/TAP driver is only used by specific VPNs (e.g. OpenVPN, Wireguard), not by thoses based on IKE protocols (e.g. IPsec).

  • Effort: intermediate
Taskhost Wrong Parent

Detects if the Taskhost process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Taskhost is the process of the Windows Task Manager which lists the processes that are currently running on the computer system.

  • Effort: advanced
Taskhost or Taskhostw Suspicious Child Found

Task Host manages pop-up windows when users try to close them in a Windows environment. Taskhost.exe triggers the host process for the task. Task Host is a Windows process designed to alert users when dialog boxes close. It is usually launched when restarting and shutting down a PC, and checks if all programs have been properly closed. This process should not create a child process or it is very rare.

  • Effort: advanced
Taskhostw Wrong Parent

Detects if the Taskhostw process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. Taskhostw is a software component of Windows service start manager, it starts DLL-based Windows services when the computer boots up.

  • Effort: advanced
Transfering Files With Credential Data Via Network Shares

Detects file transfer of sensitive files which contain credential data using network shares.

  • Effort: intermediate
Trickbot Malware Activity

Detects Trickbot malware process tree pattern in which rundll32.exe is parent of wermgr.exe

  • Effort: intermediate
TrustedInstaller Impersonation

The rule detects attempts to impersonate TrustedInstaller. TrustedInstaller rights could allow a threat actor to delete or modify protected file or create/delete/modify files in protected folders. This technique is used by threat actors to disable Windows Defender.

  • Effort: elementary
Turla Named Pipes

Detects a named pipe used by Turla group samples. Prerequisites: Logging for PipeEvents is needed in Sysmon config

  • Effort: elementary
UAC Bypass Using Fodhelper

Detects UAC bypass method using Fodhelper after setting the proper registry key, used in particular by Agent Tesla (RAT) or more recently by Earth Luscas. Prerequisites are logging for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: intermediate
UAC Bypass Via Sdclt

Detects changes to HKCU\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\runas\command\isolatedCommand by an attacker in order to bypass User Account Control (UAC)

  • Effort: elementary
UAC Bypass via Event Viewer

Detects UAC bypass method using Windows event viewer.

  • Effort: intermediate
Unsigned Image Loaded Into LSASS Process

Loading unsigned image (DLL, EXE) into LSASS process. To activate this rule you need to monitor loaded images into the LSASS process, this can be done with SYSMON Event ID 7.

  • Effort: advanced
Ursnif Registry Key

Detects a new registry key created by Ursnif malware. The rule requires to log for Registry Events, which can be done using SYsmon's Event IDs 12,13 and 14.

  • Effort: elementary
Usage Of Procdump With Common Arguments

Detects the usage of Procdump sysinternals tool with some common arguments and followed by common patterns.

  • Effort: intermediate
Usage Of Sysinternals Tools

Detects the usage of Sysinternals Tools due to accepteula key being added to Registry. The rule detects it either from the command line usage or from the regsitry events. For the later prerequisite is logging for registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: master
User Account Created

Detects user creation on windows servers, which shouldn't happen in an Active Directory environment. Apply this on your windows server logs and not on your DC logs. One default account defaultuser0 is excluded as only used during Windows set-up. This detection use Security Event ID 4720.

  • Effort: master
User Account Deleted

Detects local user deletion

  • Effort: master
User Added to Local Administrators

Detects when user accounts are added which could be legitimate activity or a sign of privilege escalation activity, Potential False-Positives Legitimate administrative activity WinRM clients

  • Effort: master
User Couldn't Call A Privileged Service LsaRegisterLogonProcess

The LsaRegisterLogonProcess function verifies that the application making the function call is a logon process by checking that it has the SeTcbPrivilege privilege set. Possible Rubeus tries to get a handle to LSA. This rule requires to log the Event ID 4673, which can be done by updating the Audit Policy.

  • Effort: master
Userinit Wrong Parent

Userinit.exe is a key process in the Windows operating system. On boot-up it manages the different start up sequences needed, such as establishing network connection and starting up the Windows shell. This rule analyse if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
Venom Multi-hop Proxy agent detection

Detects Venom Multi-hop Proxy agent.

  • Effort: intermediate
WCE wceaux.dll Creation

Detects wceaux.dll creation while Windows Credentials Editor (WCE) is executed.

  • Effort: intermediate
WMI DLL Loaded Via Office

Detects Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) DLL loaded via Office process. This activity may correspond to VBA macro executing WMI commands, which is highly suspicious. The prerequisite is to log Loaded DLLs images, which can be done with the Sysmon Event ID 7 (DLL image loaded by process).

  • Effort: master
WMI Event Subscription

Detects creation of WMI event subscription persistence method

  • Effort: advanced
WMI Install Of Binary

Detection of WMI used to install a binary on the host. It is often used by attackers as a signed binary to infect an host.

  • Effort: elementary
WMI Persistence Command Line Event Consumer

Detects WMI command line event consumers.

  • Effort: elementary
WMI Persistence Script Event Consumer File Write

Detects file writes through WMI script event consumer.

  • Effort: advanced
WMIC Command To Determine The Antivirus

Detects WMIC command to determine the antivirus on a system, characteristic of the ZLoader malware (and possibly others)

  • Effort: advanced
WMIC Loading Scripting Libraries

Detects threat actors proxy executing code and bypassing application controls by leveraging wmic and the /FORMAT argument switch to download and execute an XSL file (i.e js, vbs, etc). The rule requires to log Loaded DLLs to work properly, which can be done using Sysmon Event ID 7.

  • Effort: master
WMIC Uninstall Product

Detects products being uninstalled using WMIC command.

  • Effort: intermediate
WMImplant Hack Tool

WMImplant is a powershell framework used by attacker for reconnaissance and exfiltration, this rule attempts to detect WMimplant arguments and invokes commands.

  • Effort: intermediate
Wdigest Enable UseLogonCredential

Detects modification of the Windows Registry value of HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest\UseLogonCredential. This technique is used to extract passwords in clear-text using WDigest. The rule requires to log for Registry Events, which can be done using Sysmon Event IDs 12, 13 and 14.

  • Effort: elementary
Webshell Creation

Detects possible webshell file creation. It requires File Creation monitoring, which can be done using Sysmon's Event ID 11. However the recommended SwiftOnSecurity configuration does not fully cover the needs for this rule, it needs to be updated with the proper file names extensions.

  • Effort: master
Webshell Execution W3WP Process

Detects possible webshell execution on Windows Servers which is usually a w3wp parent process with the user name DefaultAppPool.

  • Effort: advanced
Werfault DLL Injection

Werfault DLL search order look first in the current file, which lets an attacker use th legitimate exe to run its own DLL.

  • Effort: intermediate
WiFi Credentials Harvesting Using Netsh

Detects the harvesting of WiFi credentials using netsh.exe.

  • Effort: advanced
Windows Credential Editor Registry Key

Detects the use of Windows Credential Editor (WCE). Prerequisites are logging for Registry events in the Sysmon configuration (events 12 and 13).

  • Effort: elementary
Windows Defender Deactivation Using PowerShell Script

Detects attempts to deactivate Windows Defender with PowerShell using ScriptBlockLogging.

  • Effort: master
Windows Firewall Changes

Detects changes on Windows Firewall configuration

  • Effort: master
Windows Registry Persistence COM Key Linking

Detects COM object hijacking via TreatAs subkey. Logging for Registry events is needed in the Sysmon configuration with this kind of rule <TargetObject name="testr12" condition="end with">\TreatAs\(Default)</TargetObject>.

  • Effort: master
Windows Registry Persistence COM Search Order Hijacking

Detects potential COM object hijacking leveraging the COM Search Order. Logging for Registry events is needed, it can be done with Sysmon's Event IDs 12 and 13.

  • Effort: advanced
Windows Update LolBins

This rule try to detect a suspicious behavior of wuauclt.exe (windows update client) that could be a lolbins. Wuauctl.exe could be used to execute a malicious program.

  • Effort: elementary
Wininit Wrong Parent

Windows Boot is a background application launcher for the Windows operating system. Wininit.exe is responsible for performing the Windows initialization process. This rule analyse if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
Winlogon wrong parent

Winlogon.exe is a process that performs the Windows login management function, handling user login and logout in Windows. You see this process in action whenever the operating system asks you for your username and password. It is also responsible for loading user profiles after login, this supports automated login (when relevant) and keyboard and mouse inactivity monitoring to decide when to invoke the screen saver. This rule analyse if the parent of this process is a legitimate one or not.

  • Effort: advanced
Winrshost Wrong Parent

Detects if the Winrshosts process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process The winrshost.exe is a Host Process for WinRM's Remote Shell plugin.

  • Effort: advanced
Winword Document Droppers

Detects specific process characteristics of word document droppers. This techniques has been used by Maze ransomware operators.

  • Effort: elementary
Winword wrong parent

Word is a well known Windows process used to read documents. Some malicious process could use it to run malicious code. The rule tries to detect winword.exe launched with a suspect parent process name.

  • Effort: advanced
Wmic Process Call Creation

The WMI command-line (WMIC) utility provides a command-line interface for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). WMIC is compatible with existing shells and utility commands. Although WMI is supposed to be an administration tool, it is wildy abused by threat actors. One of the reasons is WMI is quite stealthy. This rule detects the wmic command line launching a process on a remote or local host.

  • Effort: intermediate
Wmic Service Call

Detects either remote or local code execution using wmic tool.

  • Effort: intermediate
Wmiprvse Wrong Parent

Detects if the Wmiprvse process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. The wmiprvse.exe process (wmiprvse stands for Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation) is a generic process for managing clients on Windows. It is initialized the first time a client application connects and allows you to monitor system resources. This requires Windows command line logging.

  • Effort: advanced
Wsmprovhost Wrong Parent

Detects if the Wsmprovhost process was executed by a non-legitimate parent process. The PowerShell host wsmprovhost.exe is a proxy process executed remotely through PowerShell when using Windows Remote Management (WinRM).

  • Effort: advanced
XCopy Suspicious Usage

Detects the usage of xcopy with suspicious command line options (used by Judgment Panda APT in the past). The rule is based on command line only in case xcopy is renamed.

  • Effort: advanced
XSL Script Processing And SquiblyTwo Attack

Detection of an attack where adversaries may bypass application control and obscure execution of code by embedding scripts inside XSL files. Another variation of this technique, dubbed "Squiblytwo", involves to invoke JScript or VBScript within an XSL file.

  • Effort: intermediate
xWizard Execution

Detects the execution of Xwizard tool with specific arguments which utilized to run custom class properties.

  • Effort: master